Official: All on Cactus callsign effective 9/1/08

[Fly-n-hi]

I'm not an East guy. I have just observed this the last couple of years when I get stuck airlining through PHX. Never On Time. Never Friendly Service. I'm not impressed.

I never said you were an East guy.

 

[PositiveRate]

I'm glad I could clear this up for you. If there's anything else you need explained to you, like how babies are made, I'll be glad to let you know.

Nice!

Excellent recap, bytheway. Unfortunately, it's all just preaching to the choir at this point. A judge is going to finish this and no one's mind is going to change at this point.

Oh, and it's just a callsign...who the heck cares what it is. Sure it's nice that they're actually doing what they said they would, but the real argument was that it needed to be one, not two.

 

[rajflyboy]

Dude;
You just haven't had the good luck to by on one of my flights. 98% on time or early!! Maybe it's the luck of the draw? AWA gate agents (save a couple sour grapes here & there) are the best (unless you come up to the counter w/ a pissy attitude).

Frankly, I don't know how CSR's & FA's keep a good disposition for all of the crap they periodically get. Easily the lowest paid & least appreciated professionals in this industry. Thank you all.

I have been through there 6 or 7 times this year. It has been the same every time. Too busy in my opinion and don't even think about returning from an international flight back into PHX. You will be lucky to make your connection. Horrible setup for customs and rechecking your bag... walking outside the airport and then re entering at security.

 

[LearLove]

my 2 cents - FWIW I like the cactus callsign but think the mainline carrier should be the name of the company so I'd like to see US Air stay but lie others said in the grand skeem of things it really doesn't matter.

On a side note i have a trip that ends in PHL very late on 8/31 so I may be one of the last guys (on the east coast) to use the US Air callsign (possibly the last to arrive in phl under US Air.)

 

[regionaltard]

....If there's anything else you need explained....

You'd have more success teaching a dog to play chess. They don't get it because they believe that their willful ignorance will somehow benefit them in the long run.

 

[f15boomer]

Amen to that Boomer! I just lost my MC Riding buddy / Brother-in-Law in an "incident" on July 28th to a 30 year old 2x DUI w/ a suspended license. I have no doubt that Mike is in God's house at this very minute waiting for his family to join him sometime in the future, but it still doesn't take away the sting.

1. Tell your family members and friends what they mean to you and that you love them.
2. Send them a post card from the road from time to time as a reminder.
3. Take LOTS of pictures. The occasion that you are waiting for to do family pictures or pictures with friends may never come.
4. Have fun at work & w/ your co-workers (but not at their expense).
5. Repeat steps 1-4 often!!

Cactusboy53,

Thanks for the kind words. I with try to live by those 5 points. I to am sorry for your loss.

 

[WSurf]

my 2 cents - FWIW I like the cactus callsign but think the mainline carrier should be the name of the company so I'd like to see US Air stay but lie others said in the grand skeem of things it really doesn't matter.

On a side note i have a trip that ends in PHL very late on 8/31 so I may be one of the last guys (on the east coast) to use the US Air callsign (possibly the last to arrive in phl under US Air.)

I agree, Lets see here....

American Airlines-American
Continental=Continenetal
United = United
Delta=Delta
NorthWest=Northwest
JetBlue=JetBlue
SouthWest =Southwest


US Airways= Cactus??

Well there's AirTran= Citrus


My 2 cents worth, I just wish when these airlines merged they would have just created a whole new name for it. Then a bunch of the East/West stuff might not have been as bad as it is.

Lear, take a camera with a movie mode ability and tape the sound of the last US Airways Callsign in philly!

 

[becket]

I agree, Lets see here....

American Airlines-American
Continental=Continenetal
United = United
Delta=Delta
NorthWest=Northwest
JetBlue=JetBlue
SouthWest =Southwest


US Airways= Cactus??

Well there's AirTran= Citrus


My 2 cents worth, I just wish when these airlines merged they would have just created a whole new name for it. Then a bunch of the East/West stuff might not have been as bad as it is.

Lear, take a camera with a movie mode ability and tape the sound of the last US Airways Callsign in philly!

They had a new call sign ready to go. It was supposed to be "FLAG". Then, the braintrust over at USAPA pulled their thinly veiled "safety" B.S. in the form of USA Today.

Parker trumped the VP of flight ops and forced the "Cactus" call sign as a daily reminder of who exactly saved their azzes.

 

[captairbusbb]

They had a new call sign ready to go. It was supposed to be "FLAG". Then, the braintrust over at USAPA pulled their thinly veiled "safety" B.S. in the form of USA Today.

Parker trumped the VP of flight ops and forced the "Cactus" call sign as a daily reminder of who exactly saved their azzes.

Amen brother..........after the crew news video in CLT where the uscabians tried to intimidate dougie, and bular stepped on his crank, dougie probably said enough is enough. Call sign CACTUS.

From this point on, the uscabians need to be reminded that USAir(ways) is only a brand name. The new company is LCC. Your azzes were saved by our little regional in the sand box, but, nevertheless, USAir did not save AWA. Exact opposite. Read the SEC filings and 2007 annual report (page 38 I believe) and argue the facts with an arbitrator. Then don't like what you see and sue him/her.

Capt.

 

[GSXR600]

This post is really funny!! the more I read, the more I laugh!......here are bunch of professionals fighting over a call sign.......UNFU&^^%ING REAL.

Well why don't you guys make up a call sign that combines the two names?? (USLESS AIR/CACTUS)
Perhaps people here may have any ideas. anyone??
Ohhh no. What have I started?

 

[WSurf]

Amen brother..........after the crew news video in CLT where the uscabians tried to intimidate dougie, and bular stepped on his crank, dougie probably said enough is enough. Call sign CACTUS.

From this point on, the uscabians need to be reminded that USAir(ways) is only a brand name. The new company is LCC. Your azzes were saved by our little regional in the sand box, but, nevertheless, USAir did not save AWA. Exact opposite. Read the SEC filings and 2007 annual report (page 38 I believe) and argue the facts with an arbitrator. Then don't like what you see and sue him/her.

Capt.

I wouldn't go that far. We all know they saved each other. US Airways would have been gone and like "Parker" said, AWA would have been another Frontier with all the sharks waiting to eat us.

And US Airways was also a little regional with a handful of International Flights.

Really now, if they hadn't got together they would both be out of biz.

 

[becket]

Really now, if they hadn't got together they would both be out of biz.

Frontier is still in business. US Air was a week from liquidation. AWA provided liquidity to cover that last payroll checks before the merger...that's how dire their situation was.

AAA was toast. AWA was generally ok.

 

[PHXFLYR]

Maybe.


PHXFLYR

 

[PHXFLYR]

This post is really funny!! the more I read, the more I laugh!......here are bunch of professionals fighting over a call sign.......UNFU&^^%ING REAL.

Well why don't you guys make up a call sign that combines the two names?? (USLESS AIR/CACTUS)
Perhaps people here may have any ideas. anyone??
Ohhh no. What have I started?

Ok. I'll bite. How 'bout "eUSTUS". Problem is there might be some old Piedmont Airlines hillbilly flying 767's with the same name who'lll think the airline was re-named after him.


PHXFLYR

 

[GSXR600]

That's Good Anyone Else??
How But Catways!!!

 

[vetrider]

A call sign is just a call sign, except for the symbology of it in this case.

Without regurgitating a long a tired story, I'll simply say it this way. At least now those egocentric 'its all and only about me' east coast pilots will get a daily working reminder that its not all about them.

There may be a percent or two back there who really don't care, but it will drive the rest of em up the wall, whether they own up to it or not. And after what they have pulled on the west all along I kinda like that. Petty? Yeah I suppose so, but I can't help it.

 

[145BOSS]

Just looking forward to listening to some hick from Carolina go off when I respond "Roger follow the America West Airbus to 22R".

 

[Mookie]

Call Signs,

Am West-"Cactus"
US Air-"Cactus Pricks..."

done...argument over, brilliant...

what a ******************** fight....

 

[sktwstdfrk]

Just looking forward to listening to some hick from Carolina go off when I respond "Roger follow the America West Airbus to 22R".

WE HAVE A WINNER! :laugh:

 

[Flyingcat]

I am so confused by the argument that AWA saved USA. Money came to the merger from outside either company and was arranged by the then CEO of US Bruce Lakefield whom is still the Vice Charmain of the board. It has been said publicly many times over by your president Scott Kirby that AWA would have met the same fate as USA and that the merger was needed to "save" both carriers.