BREAKING NEWS about UAL

[contrail67]

Here's some more rumor from her site:

Updates on All Things United Airlines


From one of our readers this morning:
"Here is what I am hearing on the United front:

1. Culling the B737 fleet (94 airplanes) by Fall 2009. ​

2. Selling off 7 B747s by Fall 2008. ​

3. 25 percent staff cuts by Fall 2008. ​

4. Death to TED (quickly but painfully). ​

5. John Tague becomes the de facto President. (Hopefully after some quick-but-intense "Grooming by Glenn"). ​

6. Massive reorganization - "all the ​

wrong people are being promoted." ​

Are you hearing similar rumblings?"​

Yes. And more.

In fact, the Tague comment is especially interesting, as after the US Airways/United deal fell apart, we were told by several folks close to the deal that one of the big reasons was because John Tague wanted to become CEO of United, USTed, or whatever the merged airline would have been called.

So this dovetails with those comments.

We've also had a slew of other comments from readers this morning telling us that the entire United Boeing 737 fleet will be parked. So this seems to coincide with our reader's comments above as well.

So it looks like instead of parking 70 aircraft, the total number of aircraft parked at United Airlines may be over 100.

Will look for this on the United Airlnes site...not there though...who is this person putting this information out?

 

[shagadelic]

This comes from planebuzz.com. Same lady that does planebusinessbanter.com. Holly Heggeman (sp?). She's an industry blogger. Who she knows and where she gets her info I have no idea. But she seems to get the first scoop on a lot of stories.

 

[contrail67]

Nothing is being announced on the United Company web site....will just see how reliable this is. I am curious...did she also predict the US Air thing was going through too? Will be interesting to see if her source "from one of our readers" pans out.

 

[Networ-King]

On a lighter note, I'd love to see how this was determined in the interview (or maybe not).

What do you think Kit Darby was doing in the back room at the Air Inc. job fairs after his eye opening speech about the industry? HHmmmm come to think of it.... isn't that turd a United pilot? So this might have been performed on United property .

 

[laterallymobile]

The problem with Holly is that she usually has good information.

 

[Torpid]

"selling 7 B747 by Fall 2008"

I talked with a UAL pilot a while back who told me that the 74 was the only plane United had that could fly the nonstop to Beijing. Is this still the case and if so would they really get rid of them?

 

[airksk]

"selling 7 B747 by Fall 2008"

I talked with a UAL pilot a while back who told me that the 74 was the only plane United had that could fly the nonstop to Beijing. Is this still the case and if so would they really get rid of them?

Seems like the 777 should be able to do it, they make it over there from other parts of the U.S.

 

[greenbayfan]

If the master plan is to have John Tague become President/CEO, you United guys and gals better start thinking of some other career, because he did a great job at ATA.....

 

[On Your Six]

If the master plan is to have John Tague become President/CEO, you United guys and gals better start thinking of some other career, because he did a great job at ATA.....

Didn't he also run Air South (737 operator) into the ground? Yikes!

 

[145BOSS]

United's P&W powered 777s don't have nearly the range of other carriers GE powered aircraft. They can't fly ORD-PEK without a serious weight restriction.

 

[Hvy]

If the master plan is to have John Tague become President/CEO, you United guys and gals better start thinking of some other career, because he did a great job at ATA.....

Wow...the UAL haters are out in force. Sort of sad that there are so many of you.

 

[Andy]

What do you think Kit Darby was doing in the back room at the Air Inc. job fairs after his eye opening speech about the industry? HHmmmm come to think of it.... isn't that turd a United pilot? So this might have been performed on United property .

Kit Darby left United a while ago. From what I heard, he got fired for bringing unauthorized personnel on the flight deck.
Last I heard, he was working for MaxJet or EOS. Which means that he's unemployed right now.
Good thing there's a pilot shortage; he should have no problem finding a new job.

 

[contrail67]

Wow...the UAL haters are out in force. Sort of sad that there are so many of you.

One thing I have learned is that most of them are still pissed they got turned down. Hurt their feelings and now want revenge....yawn.

 

[MJ42]

Kit Darby left United a while ago. From what I heard, he got fired for bringing unauthorized personnel on the flight deck.
Last I heard, he was working for MaxJet or EOS. Which means that he's unemployed right now.
Good thing there's a pilot shortage; he should have no problem finding a new job.

Correct, although he says he retired (but conveniently leaves out involuntarily).

I have lots of friends at UAL, hope things get better for us all. Unfortunately many of us are about to follow in your footsteps.

 

[Andy]

Wow...the UAL haters are out in force. Sort of sad that there are so many of you.

I took his comment more about Tague than UAL. IIRC, he's made more than a couple of management missteps prior to joining UAL.