or are you afraid that the ticket will be found to be a fraud?
The Award will stand, there was no fraud and you know it and it is that, that you are afraid of !!!
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or are you afraid that the ticket will be found to be a fraud?
Easties will get their raise. They will get backpay, and they will get a reissuance of the arbitration.
I suspect you would feel a little less smug and clever were you wearing their shoes. Sit down with an Airways East guy or gal sometime and ask them about their career. You'll be singing a different tune.
PS-Are you one of those guys who goes around calling his fellow pilots short-sighted morons but also complains vehemetly at the slightest suggestion of Legacy pilot snobery directed towards Air Tran? respect
I'm pretty sure that Nicolau believed that you understood that when he told the East that D'OH wasn't going to fly.
Just curious.....what do you do when the EGPWS sez "Pull Up!!!?" Decertify Physics?
No. Actually its very simple. I look at the America West pilot next to me and say, MY AIRPLANE...
No. Actually its very simple. I look at the America West pilot next to me and say, MY AIRPLANE...
Itsallsogood means you stand for nothing but your selfish @ss. You must be an ALPA politician/airline pilot who sells used cars on your days off.
No, that would be called USAirpilotsogood.
When little old grandmas walk on to your lot you sell them an F250 jacked three feet off the ground, while you pointing them to Home Depot in search of a ladder, while you laugh at the large commission you just scammed out of them by selling them everything they can not use, while having an over inflated sense of yourself looking at the plaque on the wall claiming you are the sales d!ck of the day.
The place Luckytohaveajob at HomeDepot, was a reality.
So wheres the charm and sales ability selling the Easties concerning ALPA? Oh, I forgot, Its all so good. It all so good because your the next scab.
Outsider looking in here:
IF the solution to all of this integration mess was better fencing, why on earth did you (US) go to arbitration.
I keep reading posts by (US) folks about what should have been done and what could nave been done to more evenly and equitably arrive at merged list. My question is, why weren't these things actually negotiated?
In the end, this is clearly a failure to negotiate. That failure does not rest with the Arbitrator, nor with ALPA. It rests with those chosen to negotiate, and by default, those who sent them.
They can't even get their guys to donate to USAPA. It's a lost cause...they issued an email basically begging for money and talking about how their lawyers are only working for half pay, blah blah blah.
They can't even get their guys to donate to USAPA. It's a lost cause...they issued an email basically begging for money and talking about how their lawyers are only working for half pay, blah blah blah.
They're not going to drag us into anything. They've made so many false assumptions, it's amazing. You can't just pull off a hostile union change for the express purpose of harming the minority group. Again...staggering arrogance.
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Originally Posted by LandGreen
I am sure there is someone out there that will spend the 20 minutes to research and compare safety records????
Since 8/1/1983 (AWA was born)............
USAir - 7 fatal accidents - 234 Fatalities
America West - 0 fatal accidents - 0 Fatalities
All of the accidents since 1983 at USAir happened between 1989 and 1994. Was that during the PSA merger? I hope that this trend does not reappear with this integration...........
Right, Wrong, or Indifferent - BE SAFE out there !!!
From a previous post about the AWA "Rookies"
http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0611/105.html
America's Worst Airline?
Alan Farnham, 06.11.01
We scoured tons of data on canceled flights, lost luggage, staff rudeness and more to find which carrier is worst at what. And the loser is...
Based on five criteria-complaints, lost luggage, comfort, denied boardings and on-time flights-America West ranks worst among the top ten carriers. Its score of 43.8 means it fared, on average, only 44% as well as the top airline in each category in the year 2000. Delta ranks best.
see America's Worst Airline: The Forbes Index
AMERICAWEST 43.8
America West. Even in an industry rife with screwups, crummy service and dissembling, America West stands out as a paragon of badness. It ranks worst in customer complaints, worst in lost luggage, worst in cabin comfort and next-to-worst in on-time performance. It has one thing going for it: In denied boardings (bumping ticketed passengers because a flight is oversold), it is somewhat less bad than the average airline.
To its credit, this beleaguered carrier, founded in 1983 by former Continental executive Michael Conway and Phoenix accountant Edward Beauvais, is the only airline to become a major player among 150 startups formed after the airlines were deregulated in 1978. But America West's "debits" are daunting (see box, A Bad Airline Repents, p.112).
The FAA slammed it with a $5 million fine in 1998 for maintenance violations, the largest such fine ever levied. AmWest (nyse: AWA - news - people ) later paid a reduced amount ($2.5 million), settling charges that included flying 41,000 flights using 17 planes that were overdue for structural inspection.
The AmWest scrapbook includes some doozies. The carrier has stranded Bruce Babbitt and broken stewardesses' legs (in an onboard mishap). It has belittled a blind woman and engaged in behavior that some passengers deem to be racial profiling. In one incident of air rage the perpetrator was found to be an America West pilot, traveling off-duty.
Yet AmWest is only the worst in a field crowded with incompetence. The major carriers have turned business travel into an inescapable evil--a hair shirt with wings. You call an airline and are told your flight will take off on time, only to arrive at the airport and be kept waiting for hours. The food is awful, when you can get any, and thousands upon thousands of bags are misplaced or lost (see Baggage, p. 108). Airline seats seem designed for stick figures (see Comfort; p. 110). Complain about any of this and you risk arrest (see box, Seething on a Jet Plane, p. 106).
Statistics on poor performance understate reality. What looks bad actually is worse. Carriers have four ways of defining when a jet leaves "on time"; one way logs a flight as punctual even if it sits for hours on the tarmac (see On Time, p. 115). In 1999, under pressure from Congress, the airlines made new "customer service commitments," but most don't go beyond what the law already requires. Prompt refunds? They've been mandated for two decades.
Relief won't come soon. Many problems are intractable: too few runways, too few airports, too many flights, outdated technology for air traffic control. The best a business traveler can do, for now, is to plot defensively. Toward that end we have identified which airlines are worst at what. If lost bags push you over the edge, read on and you'll know which carrier to shun.
By our measure, America West is worst overall (see "Methodology," p. 115), but your own weighting might be different. Go online to www.forbes.com/airlines, and an interactive version of these rankings will let you define your own worst (and best) carrier. Key in your priorities--comfort over complaints, or on-time arrivals ahead of baggage handling. Expanded charts rank all ten carriers in each performance category.