Astar/ABX -- Teamster or ALPA?

[shooter]

I don't think that either company has a monopoly on bad management. It will be interested to see how management is consolidated if this proposal comes to pass.

the lesser of the evils, I guess. But DHL management, they seem to be here to stay.

 

[hvydriver]

Shooter,

FWIW, I wouldn't get too wrapped up in this right now. I know that any kind of merger talk is unsettling, but this really is a long way off from any kind of "done deal" it would seem to me. Of course, now that I've said that, they'll announce a deal tomorrow.

 

[Cargoav8or]

maybe yes, if it were ABX buying out ASTAR maybe I would look at it in a different light because you have a management team in ABX that has been growing the company for over 25 years. The management team at ASTAR could not even get the airline RVSM compliant in time, no purchase of a modern fleet, I just read all the woes posted by the ASTAR pilots on this and other forums. It just looks like the combined airline will be run into the ground and the laughing stock of the industry with their management team. I am sure the pilots and workers are 95% great (like anywhere else) it's the management team that scares me. And if you want to know how I feel about DHL management...whooooo....how much time do you have? That signature line below my posts was created for them. You guys do not even see 1/4 of the BS they come up with. If you only knew what they ask us to try to get you guys to do. whew!

A Eastern scab for a D/O and Evergreen maint noid for the Senior VP. You have a right to worry.

 

[abxdx]

Just curoius,

Most of the articles that I read refer to this transaction as a buyout and not a merger. Do the pilots have a clause in there contract that intergrates them into ASTAR's pilot group based on seniorty, or will ABX's #1 guy be just below the lowest Astar guy? This may have been already addressed I was not sure...

 

[two(2)%]

Just curoius,

Most of the articles that I read refer to this transaction as a buyout and not a merger. Do the pilots have a clause in there contract that intergrates them into ASTAR's pilot group based on seniorty, or will ABX's #1 guy be just below the lowest Astar guy? This may have been already addressed I was not sure...

Uh-oh! This must be the elephant in the (chat)room,
or forum:bomb:

 

[TWA]

2%, I like your signature, Thinking outside the cornfield. That's what ABX needs, not a buyout.

 

[Box-Hauler]

TWA is your Avatar a Comp 8, and if so is it yours, and if so where can I get a ride........

 

[TWA]

TWA is your Avatar a Comp 8, and if so is it yours, and if so where can I get a ride........

I wish. It's a Quest Kodiak, a new turbine STOL aircraft that will soon be in production. I got a chance to see it at Oshkosh last year, and it is one fine plane. A little smaller than a Caravan with twice the performance.

 

[erichartmann]

Shooter,

FWIW, I wouldn't get too wrapped up in this right now. I know that any kind of merger talk is unsettling, but this really is a long way off from any kind of "done deal" it would seem to me. Of course, now that I've said that, they'll announce a deal tomorrow.

Hvy, I'm with you. FWIW, IMHO Hete has said no to Dasburg already. That's why the press release of the "informal offer". Soon to come in newspaper near you will be another press release saying no deal will be made. The goal will be to kick the support out from under ABXA's share price so that Daz's $7.75 looks to good to turn down. The key will be what DHL does. If they in turn announce they are considering not renewing ABX's ACMI...

 

[abxaviator]

With the continued talk of the company about a Japan domicile, I urge you to read this thread; I'm sure the Company is watching this very closely.

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=100145