US Airways – Delta Merger Update

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US Airways – Delta Merger Update: December 16, 2006

US Airways Executives Brief Delta Creditors on Bid (Update2)

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Local US Airways center is bustling - Reservations jobs up 62%, growing

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US Airways mulls site for proposed merged airline

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United Air Merger Talks May Put Continental in Charge (Update3)

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USA320Pilot
 
How can US possibly say this? They haven't even agreed to anything yet. Unless, Parker is going to use ATL as a carrot to quell the GA politicians.
Let's let the good o'l pilot keep reporting and dreaming of a premier airline job, just like he did when he was dreaming of a united merger, Oh wait, that was then, this is now!! :lol: :lol:
 
Let's let the good o'l pilot keep reporting and dreaming of a premier airline job, just like he did when he was dreaming of a united merger, Oh wait, that was then, this is now!! :lol: :lol:


Back off Bart. The Unique Corprate Transaction will happen someday. You haters and deniers should start believing.. :lol: :shock:
 
US Airways – Delta Merger Update: December 16, 2006

US Airways Executives Brief Delta Creditors on Bid (Update2)

See Story

Local US Airways center is bustling - Reservations jobs up 62%, growing

See Story

US Airways mulls site for proposed merged airline

See Story

United Air Merger Talks May Put Continental in Charge (Update3)

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Best regards,

USA320Pilot

There has also been a 62 percent increase in the airline's reservations work force, or about 290 employees, at its center on Hanes Mall Boulevard in Winston-Salem in the past 18 months.

The help-wanted sign remains out, with training classes set for January and February.


That's quite a creative interpretation for what is actually occurring. In actuality the reservations operations is not expanding. The company shed their senior work force by systematically closing their senior offices of Indianpolis, San Diego, Syracuse, Orlando & Pittsburgh. The least senior of the offices remained opened. Outsourcing was used until the lower salaried America West Reservation operations came on board. Now the company is simply replacing the employees who can't return because their furlough rights have expired with low wage new hires
 
That's quite a creative interpretation for what is actually occurring.
In the real world where real people are affected, you're right. However, in the PR world of spinning thing so that they appear most favorable to a particular view or agenda, Parker et al can say it with a straight face.

Why? Because it's technically true. All those people left the company before the merger happened on Sept 27, 2005. So there were no furloughs after the US/HP merger (those MDA folks weren't real US employees - just ask the ALPA MEC :down:).

Just remember this little technicality when Parker says that they "don't anticipate any furloughs" as a result of the DL/US merger. Is he only talking about no furloughs after the merger would be consumated upon DL's exit from BK?

Jim
 
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