Official: All on Cactus callsign effective 9/1/08

[Skippy]

waterskiers everywhere RULE

 

[dugan jones]

i feel bad for the european controllers that are gonna be like who the hell is cactus?

 

[Long Time Gone]

You guys still don't understand that your old USAir from 1985 is dead and gone?

If that's the case, then why didn't good 'ole Doogie just repaint the entire fleet with the America West colors instead? This is just one more thing done intentionally to aggravate the "Easties".

Yeh, AWA bought the ailing USAir. Yeh, AWA kept the USAir name for customer recognition reasons. That's all the consumer sees. There's a lot more wrong with this whole situation than what the consumer sees. The "merger" of seniority lists (if you want to call it that) was one of the big ones. How anyone at AWA can say that they rightfully have more seniority than most USAir pilots just baffles me.

Y'all remind me of my kids sometimes instead of all growing up and doing the right thing if you were in someone else's shoes. Both sides (AWA especially) need to do what needs to be done for the company to financially survive instead of constantly wondering what they can do to the other side just to piss them off again.

Stephen Wolf sucked as CEO. Just like Carty did and Tilton does now (I know, totally different companies, don't go there). Siegel tried to fix it, but the boat had too many big holes in it to patch. Doogie ain't any better than Wolf was. Granted, he doesn't seem to be sucking greenbacks out of the company like Wolf did, but his business decisions haven't made much sense, either. I haven't seen any positive changes there yet. Next month will be 3 years since the merger, and the only real thing that has honestly merged is the aircraft colors. Thank God that his attempt to take over Delta was futile.

I know that a lot of the issues also have to do with the "pride" of the USAir mainline guys. They screwed themselves with scope issues and lack of wholly owned jets. The whole J4J debacle is enough to make you cringe.

It's time to grow up children, or be evicted to the playground. Make a choice.

 

[OnTheDole]

Yes, we are all better off now that we are to have a cutsie little regional name for a call sign instead of the name of the airline like the other legacy carriers. It is very fitting for what we have become.

Now we can fit in with Waterski and Brickyard. I am so proud

In that case, maybe some other ideas:

theif
liar
coward
backstabber
cry baby

Thats what USAir has become...

I (a westie) don't want to use the cactus call sign for combined ops. It should be retired before the easties have time to destroy that as well.

 

[Whataburger]

I will be joining you very shortly, and the callsign is still amateur hour.

Since 2000, USair has been stuck in amateur hour from the top down. How's Wolf doing these days?

 

[Tejas-Jet]

No doubt the common call sign will unify the pilot group

 

[bigtexpilot]

How anyone at AWA can say that they rightfully have more seniority than most USAir pilots just baffles me.

Here we go again. We never said it Nic said it. We tried to negotiate. You guys would not have it. So, now we have the Nic.

 

[regionaltard]

It's time to grow up children, or be evicted to the playground. Make a choice.

Too late. The East reached "evicted from the playground" status months ago. If there was any rational basis for "USAir pride" it would be evident in the actions of their pilots today.

Oh, we wont give in,
Well keep living in the past.

Jethro Tull

 

[Flybywire44]

Cactus? Well it looks like something finally went well for the West...

What a weird call sign.

So the West won a battle after already losing the war?

 

[reepicheep]

How's Wolf doing these days?

Heard he had a brain seizure...still trying to count all those rj's.