The "Gloves" are now off

[B-atch]

This is the way I see it.... This PILOT group can either help grow this airline into a reputable carrier, or it will expedite its demise. One thing is for sure, the current management is bent on transitioning US Airways back to a conglomeration of multiple regionals with substandard wages and work rules.
This pilot group is being USED as a tool for this transition.....

 

[vetrider]

This pilot group is being USED as a tool for this transition.....

True. Three guesses as to who the CHIEF enabler of that is.

 

[Saluki Dawg]

I'm sorry, but this deal should be shot down by DOJ. These slots and gates should simply be put up for auction and awarded to the highest bidder. But DL and US are afraid of who that highest bidder might be. If the DOJ is really interested in some honest competition with full sized jets, NOT MORE DL RJ's, then open these slots up at auction to some of the LCC's, and may the best Airline win.

 

[Raoul Duke]

I'm sorry, but this deal should be shot down by DOJ. These slots and gates should simply be put up for auction and awarded to the highest bidder. But DL and US are afraid of who that highest bidder might be. If the DOJ is really interested in some honest competition with full sized jets, NOT MORE DL RJ's, then open these slots up at auction to some of the LCC's, and may the best Airline win.

your post does not make sense. it is like saying the government should come in and put your house up for auction. Those slots are owned by Airways and Delta. If they want to trade them that is their right - provided it meets minimum DOJ approval. This challenge is doomed. If anything it will show USAPA that they are not ALPA and do not have equal political might - which is actually a good thing in my opinion.

 

[PHXFLYR]

True. Three guesses as to who the CHIEF enabler of that is.

Any eastie with a USAPA pin on his lapel. "union pilot", my a$$ ........


PHXFLYR

 

[JetMonkey]

Look, these slots are OWNED. Which means they're entitled to deal with each other or whomever the he!! they want. If they don't want to auction them off that's their business. Why would they want to sell them to someone who'll use those routes by undercutting fares and continue to make life harder for the legacies? They've given enough to the LCC's already.

 

[JetMonkey]

Ahh Raoul you beat me to it.

 

[FR8mastr]

USAPA could come out against world hunger, and you guys would slam them.

 

[samballs]

USAPA could come out against world hunger, and you guys would slam them.

Because everyone knows it would be to benefit themselves and not world hunger

 

[AutoBus]

Let me get this straight. The union is fighting a move that would increase two respective airline's ability to make a profit?



Profitable airlines, that cover their cost of doing business with reasonably priced fares hurts the economy?

Real men of genious!

 

[Sandhawk]

Because everyone knows it would be to benefit themselves and not world hunger

sad, but true.........

 

[Bad-Andy]

Real men of genious!

I'm thinking something about a man in a glass house not throwing stones...

(Sorry, my pet peeve is insulting someone's intelligence while misspelling the insult. Back to the regularly scheduled stone throwing...)

 

[anewunion]

Do the rank and file of USAIRWAYS really feel this way ?

 

[PHXFLYR]

Depends on your definition of " rank and file ". If your talking about the original USAir guys , they probably do for no other reason than Cleary and his band of hechmen said so, so it must be true. Out west , we are wondering why PMI " sewer with a lisp " left out the fact that we also got international slots to Tokyo and Brazil in the slot exchange wirh Delta. They make it sound like it was just a swap of domestic slots only. Not that it makes any difference. We're still losing money.....


PHXFLYR

 

[Kharma Police]

Real men of genious!

Well played sir!, I love your ironically cleaver use of the misspelling of "genius"!

ummmm......you were joking, right?!?!