Golden Falcon
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Had they stayed away, U would have certainly flopped with a big *THUD*. Now, their best move is to rebuff UA and watch them roll inverted and spin into the terrain. By merging all they'd be doing is taking a seat in first class for the ride down.
Just curious why you think the new law which forces a process similar to ALPA Merger Policy is a piece of crap?It'll probably be the second case of that new piece of crap seniority integration law being challenged in court.
If you think the acrimony was bad during the first attempt to combine UAL and U, wait until this new USAPA comes in and tries to dictate seniority terms to UAL ALPA with the AWA guys siding with UAL.
Seriously? I doubt the USAPA folks would ever get past the front door.
I like Parker better known as DUI Doug...now with a name like that...we'll be just fine
Possibly he meant that the east will behave even worse when they get the smackdown you speak of? I don't think he was serious, I don't think anyone with half a brain would seriously think usapa is going to dictate anything to Ual guys and gals.
Well, if you apply common sense, then I would agree.
The reality is, the self appointed leadership at USAPA thinks they are gods gift to aviation and the rest of us are rookies. Well at least the AWA pilots.
They will walk into negotiations demanding DOH, with restrictions. Acting like they are doing the UAL guys a favor.
With apologies to "On Your Six"...
"UAL is keeping Tilton from his golf course... C'mon, the guy used to work for Chevron (oil) where everyone is making HUGE money and he probably misses that."
So Tilton, bigshot from Chevron, can't look at an airline, and bother to see if a little fuel hedging might be a good idea, since it's been going up since the Iraq war started five years ago.
So he sits on his b@tt, now he has:
3. Losing market share to the LCCs (i.e., SWA in Denver)
and:
4. Inefficient fleet very susceptible to oil cost swings (like most legacies)
Too busy $crewing with the employees to do his job, looks to me.
Just to clarify Tilton's "experience"...He was CEO of Texaco for a VERY brief period. Texaco had just had it's pants sued off and they needed a CEO for a ver brief period while they declared BK and got merged with Chevron. When the merge happened, he was given some BS job title like "double secret assistant CEO". When he left, he got a $5 million retirement deal. He had to give up that deal to come to UAL. So UAL, on the verge of BK and reneging on the pilots retirement, cut him a check to replace the one he gave up at Chevron, and he's considered the company his own piggybank since that time.
Glenn was NEVER a "real" CEO before UAL. He's a pretender. Calling Glenn a CEO for his time at Texaco is the same as calling an FO a Capt because he was the only one at the controls while the real Capt went to take a leak at Cruise...
You can count that as PIC time.
UAL is keeping Tilton from his golf course... C'mon, the guy used to work for Chevron (oil) where everyone is making HUGE money and he probably misses that.
You can count that as PIC time.