A History Lesson, this is a must read.

[Clyde Frog]

Look how far we've come, or sank

check out the date.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/11/10/68255/index.htm

 

[Bavarian Chef]

First of all, you must be way freakin' bored.

Second, I couldn't get past the second or third sentence.

A) 80 hrs a month could mean being away from your wife, your life and you children for 15-19 days a month, and 2) it was always my spot. I in no way slid into Cougar's spot.

:nuts:


edit: Interesting read. I almost inferred from the author that he thought it was easy to become a pilot. Or become a good one. Or safe one. Or a leader. Or good safe leader. Why couldn't those Izod wearing, collar turned up yuppy pilots just realize how unspecial they were and get along with their teamster bruthas?

Sorry, gotta run, Gecko's on the horn, something about Blue Star Airlines ...

 

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One of those arrested had previously taken off his uniform pants and marched through the Houston airport with a sign on his back that said: WORKING FOR LORENZO AT HALF-PRICE IS LIKE BEING HALF-DRESSED. IT'S STUPID.

More importantly - Was he wearing his hat?

Frank Lorenzo is bound to wind up as one of the industry's biggest players. He most likely will soon be running the largest airline operation in the U.S., with about 20% of the traffic. He will no doubt squeeze down his costs, sometimes at the expense of his employees' wage scales.

Nope - did not turn out that way. Like Parker, old Lorenzo ended up with a little drinking problem. And like Lorenzo, I think Parker is going to end up with no airline.

Then came a surprising public relations gaffe. In a press release, US Airways quoted Parker as saying that he had taken a blood test and that "I believe it is very likely those tests will come back under the legal limit." Within an hour came the announcement of the results, showing Parker to have been above the legal limit.
So the airline had to put out a second press release to acknowledge its mistake. On Friday evening came a third press release, prompted by newspaper inquiries, in which Parker confessed to three additional alcohol-related incidents while in his 20s. Fifteen years ago, another prominent airline industry executive was convicted of drunk driving. The executive, Frank Lorenzo, resembles Parker in that he started with a small airline and sought to create the world's biggest through mergers. In fact, Texas Air Group was, briefly, the world's biggest airline company.

 

[RedDogC130]

A consultant to other airline unions likes to tell of an acquaintance, an Eastern Air Lines captain, who recently retired in disgust at the age of 52. The job isn't what it used to be, the intrepid pilot pronounced. He used to go out with movie stars, and now he has been reduced to dating flight attendants."


Life must have been rough...you mean this does not happen anymore?

 

[ferlo]

The 2008 headliner of that article ought to be

"ALPA, Everbody's Bitch"