Continental pilots win case over small-jet flights

[OHGOON]

. Smisek is losing focus on the real enemy, the competition, and instead stirring the hornets nest with skilled labor. This guy is so disconnected from reality its almost breathtaking.

This is reckless mismanagement on the part of the exec team. You can't build a global business in today's world by always waring with your best employees.

Congratulations to the pilots on finally winning something no matter how small the initial impact. This will have repercussions down the line!

Sad reality is that most big businesses are run by arrogance and hubris bred into the individuals involved ever since their prep school days. They are not really interested in building anything, all they are out for is to preserve their privileged position in life at any cost. It's about their egos, bonuses and golden parachutes not the health and growth of the companies they happen to be associated with for the moment. The sooner the rest of us realize this once and for all the less we will be willing to cut our own throats for empty future promises.

 

[densoo]

Houston Chronicle article today. Here are some takeaway quotes. The pilots are getting some traction on this. This kind of publicity is never welcome to a company, especially in their hometown paper.

-- [scope] is a problem facing United Airlines as it tries to integrate Continental
-- the root of some of the most contentious labor battles in the history of U.S. airlines
-- a significant problem as United attempts to combine its workforce
-- negotiations aren't exactly going swimmingly
-- Continental pilots...are unlikely to yield
-- [an American pilot] sickout [over scope] led to the cancellation of more than 6,600 flights and losses of $200 million
-- it clearly has become an impediment to merging the two pilot groups
-- it could keep [the merger] from being as successful as Smisek hopes

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/7380857.html

 

[zonker]

The best news for UAL/CAL would be to find out that Jeff Lorenzo wrapped his Porsche around a lightpole.