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And as someone just recently said, ....."OK it's our(UA's) turn "in the barrel",......but as we climb out,............WHO's "NEXT"
Agreed 100%. A merger MIGHT have bought the company some time. Maybe enough for the real senior US employees to finish their careers. But in the long run the integration would have pulled both companies down, and at some point in the future we'd be right where we are today. I'd rather take our lumps now. Our problems, our employees, our solutions, our recovery, and ultimately our success.
I agree with this as well. Every airline out their will be dealing with this in a similar fashion. BTW, Spirit just announced it plans to furlough 60% of their f/a's and 45% of their pilots. UA's 737 pilot count of 969 certainly will hurt. And the cost of retraining will be significant. I think that ini the past we have shown that we can mitigate the effects of furloughs through creative means. (ie: surplus reduction lines, leaves of absence, etc.) I am going to brace for around 700-800 furloughs though. I feel the worst for the new hires who left other jobs and resigned seniority there to come to UA.
Unlike many of its competitors, DL has been very busy cutting capacity for the past several years.
Beginning the with closing of the DFW hub; the downsizing of CVG & LAX; the ellimination of the Pacific flying out of PDX and the ground of SONG. During Bankruptcy DL elliminated some flying and returned acft to lessors, it also began shifting wide bodies from domestic to international thus further reducing domestic capacity. Most of the new domestic flying has been RJ, so I think that on the heels of the reduction in flying just announced, any further reductions will be in the RJ category. I have heard rumors that the NW DC-9s may be kept and used to replace some RJ flying on some routes.
My point was totally lost on you, but then again that's not surprising since those thick AA goggles you wear won't let you see what's really going down. Your obsession with DL/NW is puzzling in lieu of that fact that there is so much to worry about over at AA 
come on guys...name='NewHampshire Black Bears' date='Jun 5 2008, 12:33 AM' post='613800']
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Oh JESUS,....................Stop it "Chucky", your killin' me with your DL Humor !!
DUDE,............You need to be in show business, on comedy TV.
DL "closing down" DFW ??...AA CLOSED it DOWN for them, and ran their MONEY Losing A$$'s out of the Metroplex.
DL "discontinuing" International flying out of "PORTLAND OREGON"
(Dude.............STOP IT. You got me pee-ing my pants)
DL going into PDX was then, and still WILL BE one of the DUMBEST moves by any of the 5 legacy carriers !
An ABSOLUTE Comical BLUNDER....(then again, it WAS the only way that the "Heavy Hitters" from ATL, could get their LONE route into NRT.)
DL has had some REAL honest to goodness CLOWNS, running the Show in HOT-LANTA.
I mean, I'd take Doug Parker, and Kirby, over Ron Allen :down: , and Leo(the light bulb) Mullin :blink:
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My airlines better than yours!!
Up late at night chugging the AA koolaid again Bear?
P.S. How's that shrine for "Uncle Bobby" comming along?
h34r:
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Are we a little disappointed that the US/UA merger didn't happen?first chapt 7
hm...
UAUA...
all thinking you dont need to merge w/ LCC...
you are on your last leg...
actually...
your only leg...
so sorry....
you should have taken the bite the first time around when they tried to meger...
so sorry
RIP
Instead of singling out United, he should have said "Insert airline name here". The article is true for all the carriers. What a mess.
