AWA/USAir

[Uniform Shop]

This year, on a stand-alone basis, America West reported a profit of $68 million. Meanwhile, the former US Airways had a second-quarter profit of $246 million, compared with a year-earlier loss of $44 million.

That is pretty impressive!

 

[Groucho]

Yep, This company has always swung between the biggest losses and the biggest gains, it's the nature of the short haul northeast market. When it is good it is very good, when it's bad it stinks. It is especially good this time because of good economics and the blood of thousands of employees given in the name of profitability.

The fact is old management could have produced those numbers with the same labor costs. The true fact of the matter is that this management must redesign the company with the right costs, which we have; the right product mix; which they are woking on , and the consistency to do it all the time; we have a way to go with that.

If they get this part correct, consistency and cost, then the combined US/AWA will be a winner. We are well on the way but they have to fix this huge monstrosity called Philadelphia.

 

[Skycam]

Yes, let's hope this mgmt. team knows what it's doing. God knows the previous one didn't, or the one before that too, for that matter. I worked ops for US in MSP for 13 years (CCR before that) and finally got the axe in June '05, and never in my life saw such incompetent "leadership." That's what happens when you have bankers running airlines...the chairs weren't even warm under their behinds before they started talking about pay and benefit cuts. To those still with the company, I wish you all the best. I miss the people I worked with, and I miss working with those people, but I don't miss the industry.

 

[Green]

of course the new usairways management has the advantage of some of the lowest paid pilots in the industry. We need a raise.....

 

[joevollers]

Yea... But I'm inspired to hear about the East's new MEC resolution of "parity Plus" given our profits..

 

[Green]

yeah hopefully they are thinking parity plus about 40%.....