You're right bvt.. what prevents it is us shutting the place down and walking out if it comes to that. Without the pilots 'making nice' for the company, they will never achieve their so much advertised sinergies. That means possible pressure on mngmt from the stock holders to maybe finally change their tactics.
CAL has become a joke to work at nowadays..
Jeff's pure disrespect for the pilots and pure ignorance for leading this company in good direction just amazes me. He had the opportunity to seize the deal flawlessly by copying Anderson at Delta. No, his ego was too big and now we plummeted to being near the bottom when it comes to morale and productivity (look at our on-time and sick calls). His biggest dirty trick with the FAs was threatening them with profit sharing to sign the contract and at the same time making parties with dollar sign cup cakes.. (but unfortunatelly it worked and they signed it).
We're starting to lose the quality of our service. We already cut off free food, charge for exit row seats, overcharge for TVs (that not too many buy).. His latest.. cut off free peanuts and pretzels to save $2.5 million annually.. really? That's pocket change (especially comparing to what he could save by having better labor relationships)! As silly as it may sound, pax valued having those free pretzels. I know because i've asked this many, many FAs what they thought of the idea, but of course Jeff never did (another mistake he does by never coming down to the 'floor' to see how this airline really runs).
Looks like we're back to counting beans and tripping over quarters to pick up pennys.
This company is changing so much on daily basis (not for better either). I really don't think there is a whole lot of morale left here for pilots to want to do anything 100% anymore. It's nothing personal, just simple management 101- treat your work force like crap and you'll get the same in return.. Sad, but that's Jeffs ignorant way..
Welcome to new Continental
