AAA/AWA Integration...

[vetrider]

Well shoot, whining like 3 year olds is an age old airline pilot specialty, no one does it better, anyone with any experience knows that. Nothing to see here, carry on, please disperse.

 

[FDJ2]

The acquisition did bring value to awa - awa shareholders that is. Until my seniority on the new list is set in stone it has only brought me stagnation.

If stagnation is the extend of the pain you feel, then you've probably made out alright. Typically mergers lead to job loss and career regression, since the new entity is usually smaller than the sum of the two.

AWA management could have chosen to grow organically, but that is not the path your management chose , that is not your fault or the fault of the AAA pilots, that is a management decision and judging from recent history, it appears to be the path that your management will follow in the future. It is also a path that leads to less career progression and more career stagnation. That's one of the problems for labor when your management pursues a growth through mergers business plan.

You are correct that the "shareholders" have achieved great value through this merger, but so have you, a "stakeholder". Not too long ago AWA was a weak airline that needed an government ATSB loan to survive. Since the merger the company has made a tidy profit, it has increased its liquidity and is operating solidly in the black. That not only gives you negotiating leverage to improve your pay and quality of life, but it also should insulate you from having to endure the hardships of working for a bankrupt carrier. So yes, you have achieved value from this merger aswell, just not as much as you had hoped for, or in the form that you had expected.

 

[Contract]

In the end, 'someone' has he brains to take two 'regional airlines' who were very small fish in a Big Pond (and even worse if they stood alone and consolidation happened without them), and put them together and made a 'growing' (as now the DL thing is over, Parker will have to probably grow from within), company that is "FAR" more profitable than either could have hope to be Alone!!!!!!

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Well I guess that just proves that you can have all the exerience in the world and a new guy can walk into the office and put you to shame on day one.

Regional Airllines

 

[eaglefly]

Buk-Buk-Buk----Buk Awk-Buk Awk.............Bawk-Buk-Buk-Buk-Bawk-Bawk.....

Just thought I'd contribute something to an equally coherent discussion.

 

[PHXFLYR]

Now that US Airways has given up their pursuit of Delta, maybe they can get down to the business of completing their current merger. Complete intergration, one certificate, and painting all the airplanes. The new company has a lot of potential on their own. Earning half a billion dollars within the first complete year of a merger is very impressive! It would be nice to see US Airways place an order for more A330-200 aircraft and expand their international network. Combining the two companies gives US Airways a competitive domestic network. Why the A330-200, range 6750nm, and seat capacity in 3 class configuration 253 seats. Right now the A350 is a long way off and US Airways needs to expand internationally to compete with Delta, Continental, United, American, and Northwest. Both Phoenix and Las Vegas could probable support international expansion using the A330-200. Cities like London, Paris, and Frankfurt to start. With Airbus looking for more orders, US Airways could probable get a great deal on these aircraft. With Airbus being a large investor, I doubt they'd go boeing. The A350s that are on order are still a long way off so converting some of those orders may be coming. Their are lots of opportunities for this new US Airways once the complete intergration is complete. Now, if Parker can just focus on it!

Getting Parker to focus could be the difficult part....after his failed hostile bid you gotta wonder if "Boy Wonder" suffers from attention deficit disoder! Liked both your posts by the way.Agree with what you say about the New USAiirways having alot of potential on its own. Now if we could only get those east coast knuckleheads to quit whining about their lost pensions we might really have something here....

PHXFLYR

 

[PHXFLYR]

Man why did you have to bring wives into this mess?? Dam, I gotta go she just heard me on this board again

WD.

YOU'RE MARRIED??!!?? Ohhhhh...that poor girl!


Phxflyr

 

[Wiskey Driver]

YOU'RE MARRIED??!!?? Ohhhhh...that poor girl!


Phxflyr

There you go again behaving like your uncle
:laugh:

Good seeing you at the pizza lunch.

WD.

 

[PHXFLYR]

hey...never one to pass up a free meal.(Though one would think given the amount of union dues we're paying,you guys could at least spring for Papa John's!! ) Tell my "adopted baby brother" I said "hola".

Airbuses are for Sissies!
PHXFLYR

 

[PHXFLYR]

.....Well, that's enough sanity and intelligence for you guys, now go back to wining, and crying, and pi$$ing as each other like a bunch of 3rd graders.

Bye.[/quote]
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[Wiskey Driver]

hey...never one to pass up a free meal.(Though one would think given the amount of union dues we're paying,you guys could at least spring for Papa John's!! ) Tell my "adopted baby brother" I said "hola".

Airbuses are for Sissies!
PHXFLYR

Papa John's?? Your're luck I couldn't find a dominos!! I will tell him.

Before you down graded to that hunk of junk what a/c did you fly?:laugh:

WD.