Steenland on Today show

[freighthumper]

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=0d0f8697-b420-46b2-9f54-2ae476da0f1d&f=00&fg=


The best part is where she asks him about the 1.4 billion in labor concessions while he got a 26.6 billion bonus.

 

[John Pennekamp]

"That's simply wrong. Let's try and get our facts straight... [now redirect]"

Very nice. Typical management "answer a question with a question and redirect" when you don't like the question you were asked.

 

[PCL_128]

"Isn't this really a pilot problem?"

I really hate the media.

 

[Capt. Qdoba]

Wow. That went well.

Could you feel the love from the emails?

 

[Dizel8]

The best part is where she asks him about the 1.4 billion in labor concessions while he got a 26.6 billion bonus.

Yeah, he sure wasn't liking that question.

Oh well, at least all the NWA pilots love him!

 

[B727Driver]

Sure that wasn't a 26.6 million bonus?
Media = garbage

 

[XJohXJ]

I thought she did a good job putting the screws to him, and she must have been effective, as he got pretty steamed at the end. I think any possible negative comments regarding pilots were so brief and so quickly forgotten by the hammering she gave him.

The overall impression after watching this segment is: Management = greedy and incompetent; Employees = trying their best and misused by greedy management. Don't get too upset just because a live segment wasn't exactly what you wanted it to be.

 

[John Pennekamp]

I really hate the media.

I zeroed in on that too, but I think she said that as an attempt to bait him. She later got him to admit it's not a pilot problem.

 

[fly4ever]

She said "26.6 million", he started talking over her at that point that's why it came out sounding like the "b" word.

He is as much a snake as Lorenzo or any of the other airline executives. What a filthy and corrupt business.

 

[temcgrew]

She should have asked..."Are you looking at me?"

 

[Yuppyguppy]

Typical mgmt wish it would be TILTON ...that MFER

 

[whymeworry?]

What an arrogant prick. He told a bold-faced lie on international television by saying, "we haven't blamed our pilots." Anybody who has been following this story would have read numerous statements from NW mgmt, and indeed Steenland himself, where they outright placed most, if not all, blame on the pilots.

Then he says his pay package of $26.5 mil is "wrong"?

Get your facts straight, Steenland. You are lying in front of millions.

If NWALPA had any balls, they would sue.

 

[roadrunnerblue]

What an arrogant prick. He told a bold-faced lie on international television by saying, "we haven't blamed our pilots." Anybody who has been following this story would have read numerous statements from NW mgmt, and indeed Steenland himself, where they outright placed most, if not all, blame on the pilots.

Then he says his pay package of $26.5 mil is "wrong"?

Get your facts straight, Steenland. You are lying in front of millions.

If NWALPA had any balls, they would sue.

If ALPA and its member pilots really had any balls they would massively strike and do time in jail if they had to for not obeying the "go back to work" order following the strike.

It is high time we paralize the entire airline industry for all the incompetence and grand scale embezzlement schemes of its CEO's and the abrogated pension obligations, the massively cut pay scales etc. etc.

 

[JAM-BRO]

PCL

I think she was on the pilot's side on this... Both of them beat him up good. Check this link out. First watch Meredith interview him, then let it play on and the other interview starts.




http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=bca75191-6e61-4419-9152-765fd29c0f97&f=00&fg=

I really hate the media.

 

[capt. megadeth]

I wish she would have pressed him more on the pay issue cuz the mother fer was lying through his teeth.

 

[Frank Lorenzo]

He is as much a snake as Lorenzo or any of the other airline executives. What a filthy and corrupt business.

I resemble that statement!

I felt sorry for Doug during the interview. When he shared his very sad story of how he was in the bottom 10% of Fortune 500 CEO's, I shed a tear.

No executive should have to scrape by on 26 million per year. What a cruel industry!

 

[Schwanker]

If NWALPA had any balls, .....

I assume you don't mean the pair that's resting on their chin!

Schwanker

 

[mesaba13]

I wish she would have asked him how his pay is justified when NWA is last in customer satisfaction!

 

[Diesel-9]

Not defending him but his $26 mil is over 4 years. 6.5 a year bonus if he is on property. Annual salary just over $500,000.

 

[PCL_128]

I zeroed in on that too, but I think she said that as an attempt to bait him. She later got him to admit it's not a pilot problem.

Yeah, I saw that later in the interview. I paused the video as soon as she said it and posted because it made me so mad. Guess she's actually on our side, though. Nice for once.

 

[XJPilot547]

I thought it was well done. I especially liked the email from Will G. I threw up a lil bit when Steenland said the pilots thank him for sticking around.

 

[captain dad]

"next!"

Sooner or later, every rat sucks the pipe. Steenland, you're on deck.

He flat out lied right to that reporters face and then reprimanded her on "getting the facts straight". I hope all that money can fill that hole in your soul Dougy

I am so glad I don't work for such unethical, evil, vile creatures.

 

[COpilot]

Hi LIED !!! Right in front of us all...

B.S. !!! I am so pissed at the people who run these companies, any of them GM, CO, IBM. This guy lied to every pilot at NWA.

If you people say thanks to him when he comes into your cockpit you deserve what you get. Ocams Razor was that you who talks so fond of him?

 

[Diesel]

How does he move around? Does he airline on NWA into JFK or does he fly on a private jet? I can't imagine him flying on any nwa flight without him having some problems.

 

[The Victors]

Not defending him but his $26 mil is over 4 years. 6.5 a year bonus if he is on property. Annual salary just over $500,000.

sweet. what bonus did everyone else get?

 

[The Victors]

meaning you and the rest of the hammered employees?

 

[capt. megadeth]

I threw up a lil bit when Steenland said the pilots thank him for sticking around.

I believe that about as much as I believe anyone in management "sacrificed" anything. Fuking liar.

 

[BOOZENEWS]

If ALPA and its member pilots really had any balls they would massively strike and do time in jail if they had to for not obeying the "go back to work" order following the strike.

It is high time we paralize the entire airline industry for all the incompetence and grand scale embezzlement schemes of its CEO's and the abrogated pension obligations, the massively cut pay scales etc. etc.

Can I get an amen! THat is what is needed to send a message to the crooks! Imagine having a girlfriend that cheats on you left and right then rationalizes it and tells you how sweet you are while telling you how sorry she is, then goes out and cheats again. Rinse and repeat. When are pilots going to have the conviction to stand as one and launch a nationwide SOS?

God it F*#ing scares me that if these same girly man pri&#cks tried to fight off the British during the revolutionary war I would not be this now. Ditto on WW2.

BE A MAN AND STAND UP!

Its not that we can't change this. Its that they have no spine to stand up and do it!!

PUS#$ies

 

[bizzum]

How does he move around? Does he airline on NWA into JFK or does he fly on a private jet? I can't imagine him flying on any nwa flight without him having some problems.

One of our guys got bumped off of a NWA jumpseat by him a couple months ago.....in DCA.

 

[capt. megadeth]

One of our guys got bumped off of a NWA jumpseat by him a couple months ago.....in DCA.

How does he get to jumpseat? Is he a pilot? Too bad the captain didn't kick him off.

One of our guys kicked our airline president off the jumpseat....TWICE!!! :laugh: The guy is my hero!!!