United's Future

[Tim47SIP]

Surplus

I think President Bush, for whatever reason, does want to make war on Iraq. To date, he has not given this American sufficient reason to support that policy.

I dont think so, I think he is trying to scare the Sh$t out of Sadam. Unfortunately, he is scaring the SH$t out of alot of other people at the same time. I think his tactics might have merit.

 

[CatYaaak]

Re: Surplus

I dont think so, I think he is trying to scare the Sh$t out of Sadam. Unfortunately, he is scaring the SH$t out of alot of other people at the same time. I think his tactics might have merit.

I haven't commented on this up until now, but after watching the news for the last couple months, here's my $.02....

Change in the plan to make the world a better place. We immediately pack up our troops now serving in the Middle East, but instead of bringing them home, have them go hit the beaches at Normandy instead.

Since Spring is nearly upon us, they'd enjoy their stay in occupied Paris more than Bagdad anway.

 

[dogg]

I have to say, Well put yaak. The arrogance of 90% of airline pilots is amazing. I fly there fore I am so on and so forth. If all these cockpit superstars really had there act together,then they would have been calling for cost cutting in the late 90's when the real damage was being done. That was the hey day of reckless expansion and mega stock buy backs and worthless merger proposals. But instead it was all about "parity" and united plus 1 and fewer block hours and more time off for reserve pilots and bigger and better layover hotels, etc.... It was 3-4 years of mgmt and unions just plain plundering the bottom line of the biggest air carriers and not just in the US of A either. And now both sides point fingers at each other and wheedle on and on about 9-11 and war and asian flu and what ever blame of the week is being ginned up by usa today....... Well it is too late, the business has never seen a"drunk fest or the morning after blues" like this one and it is going to take years to repair the damage done. Period, end of story. And when it is over, the job will never be the same ever again..................So sell all the big houses and cars and boats and pull the kids out of private day school and send the wife to work and then put on your "blue shirt" and pick up your "black lunch box" and go back to work for the rest of your career, because that is all that is left...................talk about babble on, whoops, my bad...........

 

[TurboS7]

Back to the subject I think UAL will chug along. BTW I had 12 whole days off during Dec, Jan, and Feb. and I had to marry off a daughter on one of those. Mar hasn't been bad but I think that it will start to get real busy soon. Oh well, back to those 500 hour away from home months.

 

[A Passenger]

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[ClassG]

How in the hell did this get back to the top of the forum? Waht did he delete?

PS. Anyone have any new ideas about where UniTED's headed?

 

[TurboS7]

Look at it this way, UAL is still here and this thread was started almost a year ago. Unless you want to be a flight instructor the rest of your life you want UAL to be around.

 

[blueridge71]

How many UAL pilots will want to start over at $15,000 per annum, cause the rest of the majors sure ain't hiring.

 

[blueridge71]

How many UAL pilots will want to start over at $15,000 per annum, cause the rest of the majors sure ain't hiring.

 

[enigma]

I just read the Airwise.com news headlines and they show that UAL is basically abandoning Miami as a base and giving up on Latin American routes out of Miami due to Americans dominance of the region.

Good luck to all of you at UAL.

regards,
enigma