IATA head calls strikes "nonsense" demands unions quit picketing

[Tail Gunner Joe]

"Pilots and crew must come down to earth. Strikes at this time are short-sighted nonsense," International Air Transport Association (IATA) Chief Executive Giovanni Bisignani said in his opening address at the body's annual meeting on Monday.

American Airlines owner AMR Corp (AMR.N) has long maintained that its labor costs were above industry average partly because it restructured without declaring bankruptcy, while some rivals were able to slash costs under Chapter 11 protection. American Airlines Chief Executive Gerard Arpey told reporters on the sidelines of the IATA meeting his company had a a staff cost disadvantage of $600 million a year compared to other major airlines.

 

[Data]

This just in...we should all just get along. Trust management to make the right decisions for the well-being of everyone. After all, they've shown time and again how well they take the interests of the airline as a whole into account when they make sound business decisions..

uke:

 

[Baze]

"CEOs & execs must come down to earth. Big salaries and huge bonuses at this time are short-sighted nonsense."

 

[Gottafly74]

Got the honor of staying with all those people in Berlin at the Intercontinental hotel the other day.. Definitely a different breed. After all, it's a lot easier to blame labor than look themselves in the mirror and be able to sleep at night knowing that are a bunch of rapers and pillagers..

 

[SOVT]

I was in Berlin last night. More suits than you could shake a stick at enjoying a party hosted by Boeing.

This morning as we were gathering up for the bus many of these suites walked by with a look of contempt on their faces.

 

[Gottafly74]

It wasn't a look of contempt, it was the look of disbelief that they have to pay that much to put us up at a nice hotel in Berlin. They are probably working on a plan to have us share a refrigerator box in a back alley in the red light district... I just wanna make sure their aren't any blue lights in the display case...

 

[TurboAWD]

If anyone knows something about short-sighted nonsense, it's airline management.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

"CEOs & execs must come down to earth. Big salaries and huge bonuses at this time are short-sighted nonsense."

+1

Nice one, Baze.

 

[Smarta$$]

Don't worry, the management defender, anti union crowd will be on this board any minute telling us that low labor wages and high management bonus and salaries are the only way to succeed.

Puke!

 

[Smarta$$]

"CEOs & execs must come down to earth. Big salaries and huge bonuses at this time are short-sighted nonsense."

+2

Nail on the head.