USair

[Old School 737]

Just saw on CNBC that USair's average fuel bill per pax is $266.00 Thats just for the gas!!!!!!

God help us all!!! Its a race to the bottom!!!!!

 

[CALRepublic]

Wall street journal had an article yesterday, they predict oil to hit $250 by this time next year. Forget about airline disasters, now we'll be talking civil wars in poor countries.

 

[Colonel Savage]

...Forget about airline disasters, now we'll be talking civil wars in poor countries.

Just imagine what it'll be like in this country.

 

[On Your Six]

Wall street journal had an article yesterday, they predict oil to hit $250 by this time next year. Forget about airline disasters, now we'll be talking civil wars in poor countries.

I think they were quoting the Russian oil company Gazparom (sp?). I don't trust those guys either. Obviously demand for oil will spike until a certain price when people will not travel at all - at that point supplies will rise and prices will decline again.

We need to start drilling off the coasts of California and Florida - there are billions of barrels in both locations that we REFUSE to drill. It's ridiculous...

 

[CF34-3B1]

We need to start drilling off the coasts of California and Florida - there are billions of barrels in both locations that we REFUSE to drill. It's ridiculous...

The Chinese are already drilling for it (diagonally) off Cuba.

 

[MK82Man]

OLD SCHOOL -- who is US Air?

Man you are old school aren't you? US Air died over 3 years ago. The new US Airways was created in May 2005 when America West and our Management Team was able to raise the financing to bring that old dog back to life and out of bankruptcy. The new US Airways was a partnership of East and West, but only the West saw it that way, the old US Air guys figured it was still their airline. Now West pilots are being furloughed at a 30% higher rate than the East pilots. Some partnership indeed.

 

[reepicheep]

Just saw on CNBC that USair's average fuel bill per pax is $266.00 Thats just for the gas!!!!!!

And $200 of the $266 is spent sitting on the taxiway in PHL!

 

[Wiskey Driver]

I sincerely hope this $hithole goes out of business this time before it has the opportunity to ruin more families.

WD.

 

[Metrojet]

WD -

Is that the best comment you can make?

Metrojet

 

[reepicheep]

I sincerely hope this $hithole goes out of business this time before it has the opportunity to ruin more families.

WD.

Don't forget there are 1700 good guys out west who don't deserve this.

 

[Metrojet]

Why doesn't WD take a VLA (or quit) if he is so disgusted, and let a junior guy keep his job.

Metrojet

 

[airplane wizard]

Just saw on CNBC that USair's average fuel bill per pax is $266.00 Thats just for the gas!!!!!!

God help us all!!! Its a race to the bottom!!!!!

I wonder what the CEO's salary/bonus per pax is?

 

[Wiskey Driver]

Why doesn't WD take a VLA (or quit) if he is so disgusted, and let a junior guy keep his job.

Metrojet

That's funny, MJ there will be no job left to keep as that diease usair destroys everything it touches!! We on the west were done the day management climbed into bed with usless air. Now look back over history and see just who and what other great airlines this POS has destroyed...

WD

 

[Wiskey Driver]

Don't forget there are 1700 good guys out west who don't deserve this.

We never deserved it but enter DP and his inflated ego and now it is what it is. We should have worked out what ever was needed to get the job done with ATA and just let usless air fade away. No instead DP had to screw that whore without a condom and now we all have VD!!!!:angryfire

 

[weasel_lips]

We never deserved it but enter DP and his inflated ego and now it is what it is. We should have worked out what ever was needed to get the job done with ATA and just let usless air fade away. No instead DP had to screw that whore without a condom and now we all have VD!!!!:angryfire

It is your base that is closing is it not? LAS? How is the evil east to blame for this too?

 

[eaglesview]

I sincerely hope this $hithole goes out of business this time before it has the opportunity to ruin more families.

WD.

Class act!! Real professional.

 

[Wiskey Driver]

Class act!! Real professional.

Really?? Well just how much more professional you need me to be?? Maybe I should continue down that high road huh. Nope I don't think so it has become to difficult due to scabs ya know?

 

[Wiskey Driver]

It is your base that is closing is it not? LAS? How is the evil east to blame for this too?

LAS is closing??? Where does it state that??


TO:

All Pilots

FROM:
​

Captain Lyle Hogg, Vice President Flight Operations

DATE: ​

​

June 12, 2008

SUBJECT: ENSURING THE VIABILITY OF US AIRWAYS
Dear Fellow Pilot:
Today we announced a series of bold steps intended to ensure the viability of US Airways in the
face of high oil prices that are having a devastating impact on our airline and industry. We have
a lot of information about our plans on theHub and Wings. I’d like to summarize some of them
here and explain the impacts on our pilot group.
Our plan is two-prong, featuring capacity reductions and new fees and charges for services. We
announced today that we will be reducing capacity this fall by another six to eight percent versus
the same period in 2007. Also later this year and into 2009, we’ll return six Boeing 737-300s and
four A320s, cancel leases for two A330-200 aircraft scheduled for delivery in 2009, and are
planning to reduce additional aircraft in 2009 and 2010. We are also drawing down late-night
flying from Las Vegas to 74 flights by the end of the year, from a high of 141 last year.
Capacity reductions alone won’t solve our problems, so we also announced today that we will
launch a $15 first checked bag fee, will begin charging $2 for non-alcoholic beverages on our
flights, amend our Dividend Miles program to begin assessing new award redemption processing
fees, establish new or increased booking fees for other customers, and raising fees for guest pass
and parent non-rev travel. All told, our revenue initiatives are expected to generate between
$300 and $400 million annually.
The capacity cuts, however, mean that we will need 1,700 fewer US Airways employees,
including 175 pilots on the West (where we’ll be reducing block hours primarily as a result of
reducing LAS flying) and another 125 on the East, out of a pilot workforce of more than 4,700.
These pilot reductions at East and West were determined based on current separate staffing
levels and new levels of flying. Pilot reductions must be done separately, under existing labor
agreements and with separate seniority lists, while we continue to operate in the period of
separate operations before achieving a single labor agreement.
We will, of course, be working with union leaders and local management to offer leaves in line​

with our respective contracts.
​

 

[eaglesview]

Really?? Well just how much more professional you need me to be?? Maybe I should continue down that high road huh. Nope I don't think so it has become to difficult due to scabs ya know?

Scabs..HMMM I'm not even in this dog fight but I know which side has scabs working for them.

 

[Redmeat]

and raising fees for guest pass

and parent non-rev travel. ​

​

That's a real problem solving team down there in Tempe...screw the employees even more than they are already screwed...