Originally Posted by noOnespecial
Lets say you are a flyi employee and asume you pay your taxes. United has been in bankruptcy for a while now. They have cut there prices in order to defeat flyi and keep their passengers from switching over. Now I may be wrong, which is a good possbility, but it seems to me that as a tax paying flyi employee your tax dollars are going to united so they can lower there fares and put you out of a job. I know life isnt fair, but this is far from ethical. How united can be allowed to do this is beyond me. I know I dont understand bankruptcy laws, but if you could explain this to me I would appreciate it.
I think you're correct in one important respect, which is that U.S. taxpayers are poised to pay for United's pension guarantees. That's the deal United is getting as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It's a bad deal for everyone, IMHO, including Independence. (U.S. taxpayers should be made whole first and should not assume United's pension obligations, even if it means Chapter 7 liquidation of the airline.)
The rest of Chapter 11 bankruptcy is an option available to any airline, including Independence. So I don't see it as a taxpayer issue -- with that one notable exception, which absolutely shouldn't be a part of Chapter 11 proceedings.