? 4 NWA Employees - NWA Outlook

[your_dreamguy]

For those of you working at NWA or for those of you who follow NWA...Any thoughts on if you feel NWA will make it? If so, what reasons do you hold your stance on? What do you think NWA's economic outlook is for the future?

Thank you.

 

[wmudriver]

I worked at XJ(mesaba) for a year before being furloughed. I'm pretty sure NWA will make it through the BK process. It will probably be a leaner and different NWA. Their management is very calculated and militant and will do whatever it takes to make things work even at the expense of their 45,000 employees. They rejected/reneg. a lot of the leases on their planes (paying 2006 market prices instead of 1999 prices for example). Their a/c have been packed since last summer. NWA Cargo is a lucrative part of their flying division and I'm pretty sure it makes some good $. They will slowly be retiring the DC9 (which they own, not lease) over the next serveral years and introducing a 100 seat replacement here in the next year. The DC10's are slowly being phased out as they keep taking delevery of the A330. The Avro's at XJ are slowly disappearing and are being replaced by a more econimcal plane (flown by who? nobody knows). They pretty much slashed and burned every union's contract so labor took a huge hit. They seem to moving through the bankruptcy process at a fast clip. It was sad to see how many peoples lives that were negetively impacted by the whole process. From watching the Mechanics to watching the pilots getting cornholed in the 1113 process to watching 146 of my fellow coworkers get furloughed. Redtail-land isn't a happy place to be right now.

 

[81Horse]

... They seem to moving through the bankruptcy process at a fast clip. ...

They are rapidly approaching a very big speed bump, IMO.

 

[wmudriver]

They are rapidly approaching a very big speed bump, IMO.

Probably...we shall see May 4 or soon after when the results come out. Its truely sad watching peoples lives (and livelyhood) get turned upside down, put on hold or destroyed for the almighty corporate dollar. The long arm of NWA is long reaching. 3500 XJ+3500 9E+45,000 NWA employees (rough numbers) who are at risk or have been cornholed by mgmt is a lot of people. The total number of employees in Redtail land is that of the population of a decent sized city. Thats a lot of jobs in MSP, DTW and MEM at risk.