NWA CEO blames GA

[FightingIrish]

http://www.nwa.com/corpinfo/aword/

 

[sf3boy]

Ole Dick is really stretching for something to write in the World Traveler Mag. Unfortunately for him, taxing the GA aircraft at the best **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** airport in the whole world (MSP) is not going to reduce his tax burden and allow him to take a bigger bonus. He needs to concentrate on getting concessions from his greedy pilots and flight attendants as well as farm out as much flying as possible to the regionals who will deliver the exact same product for a fraction of the cost of in house labor. He could probably bleed a little more cash from the tills if he told his ramp agents that 50k per year throwing bags is a thing of the past as well.

 

[GogglesPisano]

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30916&highlight=nwa+ceo

 

[woody]

creepy uncle fester bastard

This "Dick" Anderson fella from Northwest is the second coming of Lorenzo, This guy is a real creep. You just watch he will do everything in his power to eliminate good jobs,(regional jet expasion at the expense of NWA domestic, and those wonderful self check in machines. trying to extort money from the employee's credit union because it had the name NWA in it, and they werent paying for that wonderful privlege ) His airline was one the first to become profitable through this 911 garbage yet he is still bent on eliminating as many good jobs as possible. I wish someone would make toilet paper with his face on it. Woody

 

[Pilot124]

Well said Woody..I work for NW and you hit it on the head with the reginals and the self check in. They are always pushing us to have people use them. Now they want to downsize are staff b/c of them. Dick is always blaming everybody else but himself. Great airline, great people, just Anderson is an idiot!

 

[Publishers]

Write

I just wrote him a letter indicating that I had never seen such a bunch of self serving crap in thirty years of all aspects of aviation. That is of course not counting Steve Wolf, Goodwin, Ferris, Carty, etc. etc.

 

[exdashdriver]

Showdown at MSP

GO PHIL!!!!
From AOPA.org


Mar. 18 — AOPA President Phil Boyer and Northwest Airlines Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson will meet in two weeks to discuss an editorial Anderson recently published for his airline's in-flight magazine, charging that airline passengers subsidize general aviation operations through fees and taxes on airline tickets.

"Mr. Anderson's editorial contains numerous misleading or seriously flawed statements about GA's financial contributions to the national air transportation system," said Boyer. "It has angered GA pilots and aviation enthusiasts. But AOPA has deliberately withheld its rebuttal to the editorial, working instead for constructive discussions with Northwest."

Since first learning of the editorial, AOPA has focused on setting up a meeting between Boyer and Anderson in order to clear the air. AOPA refrained from calling for a public letter-writing campaign while efforts to set up the meeting were under way. Pilots and aviation enthusiasts wrote anyway. They spontaneously began besieging Northwest Airlines with letters and e-mails protesting the tone and the misstatements in the editorial.

Anderson has now agreed to a meeting on April 2 to explain his concerns.

"That's fine," replied Boyer, "I plan to discuss our concerns and find some common ground in our respective views."

This all stems from a dispute between Northwest and the airport authority at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The Metropolitan Airport Commission also runs six reliever airports that improve efficiency for Northwest at MSP by moving most GA traffic elsewhere, and uses some of the funds collected at MSP for improvements at the relievers.

"Mr. Anderson's attack on general aviation is unfair, unwarranted, and, for the most part, untrue," said Boyer. "And by publishing his attack in so public a forum, he has raised what should have remained a regional skirmish into a nationwide battle.

"I hope that by speaking directly with him, AOPA will be able to convince Mr. Anderson that GA and the airlines are two sides of the same coin and that he should just as publicly set the record straight."