reepicheep
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Your jobs at the time of merger were going away, because you bases bring no value to the airline. Low yield markets and low yield jobs. We saw this coming.
Thats why we were never going to allow a Nic award to see the day.
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Not quite....these jobs were not going away until the carrier with the highest costs in the industry, fresh out of BK #2, contaminated the west with usair cancer. Once that malignancy had taken over, I would say these jobs were indeed going away, and will continue to go away, now that unit costs are 2 1/2 times what they were at America West.
I agree with the second part of your post and in fact believe that the inevitabillity of losing the west again was integral to the usair pilots' strategy. While the foolishly optimistic west pilots (unlike the east who were conditioned by 15 years of misery) were initially upbeat about the combined airlines' prospects the east knew better; they knew what happens to anything that touches usair and embarked on a, so far, wildly successful strategy of delaying at all costs the integration of the two carriers.
Face it. The east won.
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