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Indy- Massive Furloughs
Thanks for pointing that out! Did it occur to you that with the Bain Group's helpful aid, that ACA would receive about 50 CRJ's worth of flying at highly reduced fee per departure rates? So - our fate was the same whether we went Indy or not. It just took us four months longer to get there... -
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Give until you bleed
I feel sick. It's not the heady morning after from too much Asti (don't worry, I don't fly until Monday). It's the news. Reporters all over the US Airways terminals talking about the newest, latest and lowest idea a business has ever developed - Salaried employees "giving" their time for... -
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Nice Op-Ed From a Former DAL Employee
The article holds too much truth to be taken seriously. Since it is so reasonable, it must be the ramblings of a mad man. Sad, isn't it. We, who understand this kind of logic, are swept under by all the stakeholders who will say "no" simply because their personal greed holds the chance of... -
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U.S. to Take Over UAL Pilots' Pensions
Sooner or later. American taxpayers are going to get tired of this stuff. Let's do those numbers again. The PGBC is 23.3 Billion in the red (as of Sept 2004). That doesn't count all of US Airways. They just added UAL which is $2.9 "under funded" by UAL's accounting. However, UAL is probably... -
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What a week for the airlines.....
Oh, you mean $39 tickets, Christmas (on a Saturday no less), 3 bankrupt carriers, all airlines cutting costs and staff to the bone, all airline employees taking either real or virtual pay cuts (except for management), a freak winter storm in the Ohio Valley region, etc, etc. Those things... -
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US Airways passengers and baggage stranded
$39 tickets, $39 worth of service. Or how about this? $39 to fly to Orlando to pay $59/day to visit Disney. The pendulum is just about to start swinging back. Comair probably is going to be spending a lot of money for a computer system in the near future. US Airways will have to liquidate... -
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Crash Pad Life
Let's see: 1.) Know your terms. "Hot bed" vs "Cold" or Dedicated. If you don't like the thought of a matress/futon that is not yours and you just change the sheets to go to sleep, then a "hot bed" is not for you. Oh, those are YOUR sheets, that YOU buy. 2.) Snoring. I'm sorry but I AM an... -
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Airport Managers at Major Airports
The group you are looking for is called the AAAE - the American Association of Airport Executives. They were HQ'd in Alexandria, VA before I gave up my membership. Good luck. You think getting a pilot job is hard - I tried networking into some positions - it was a long hard process that never... -
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AMR to say "Buh Bye" to Eagle?
Well, somebody just nailed one of the reasons. If AMR/Eagle has "flow-through", then don't they have "flow-back"? They just said they are going to furlough/release 450 AA pilots. Don't AA pilot's have first rights to Eagle slots (by flow-back)? Just like at Continental - suddenly everybody... -
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Note Out to ACA DoJet Pilots
Just to set some things straight from above: 1.) Do-Jet crews are returning to Dulles in Seniority order to now transition to the CRJ. They are not retiring the crews with the airplanes. 2.) Because of the retirement of the J-41's and the Dojet, our Furlough plans kick into gear (especially... -
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flyi to furlough 154 more
Independence Air just sent us our new numbers. 154 more to be furloughed, 72 Captains displaced. Brings our new total to 457 total furloughed. Start December and run through March on a sliding schedule. The hits just keep on coming. The rumor mill ups the official number by another 200...- tarp
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PSA - Possible Safety Alert?
At Indy, we're not allowed to use the APU. Somebody found out it costs money to run an APU. So in the grand tradition of J-32's, J-41's and Dorniers (usually with broken APU's) - we don't use them and it's now considered a sacriledge to run the APU for anything other than engine start. Hot... -
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Tough Times for Independence
Wow. That's funny. No where did the article say anything about the two Airbus planes that start flying next month or the 25 Airbus planes that are on their way. For some reason the assumption is that we are a sitting target only flying CRJ's until the end of the world. They failed to mention... -
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APA caves on Scope issues
Um, you gotta ask.....where does the $500K go? What's APA going to do with that money? -
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RJ Crash Prelim
Go to the NTSB "Home Page" and then fing the link for Press releases - this is an active investigation and the most up-to-date stuff is in press releases not the aviation database. http://www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2004/041020c.htm -
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Judge Approves 21% Pay Cut at USAir
The last two paragraphs say everything you need to know about business: "Leitch acknowledged the disparity but said it is made necessary by market forces. US Airways' attrition rate for nonunion workers - who make $52,000 annually on average - is dangerously high because other airlines are... -
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united buy indy
No we don't (or at least Indy people don't hate United people)! We had a 14 year relationship. ACA's customer was United. We contracted our services at an agreed price worked out by management. We happily carried a ton of United customers and employees all over the East Coast. United was... -
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Why pilot pay is low....
Supply: Almost infinite. Demand: Very low. Result: Low salaries. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ready, watch: #of airline seats: huge # of airline passengers : low (but growing) Result: low seat prices. # of Hybrid SUV's built: Low # of people wanting hybrid SUV's: High Result... -
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Scope works - ACA furloughs more pilots
Well there you go. Management letter to pilots at ACA - due to loss of Delta flying, next round of furloughs early as November or as late as January. House estimate - about 300-350 more furloughs. Not enough Independence Flying to support all these pilots until Airbus program is in full... -