I was a hugh skeptic the day it was announced that Dave Siegel was the new President/CEO of US Airways. What could this 40 year old, Harvard educated, supposedly boy wonder do to revive this downtrodden, broken in spirit, one foot in the grave airline? Were we, the employees, going to be subject to the same platitudes we so often heard emanating from the fifth floor of Crystal City? Would we read the same type esoteric essays in ATTACHE that were common place with Steve Wolfe?
This skeptic has been transformed into a believer. In Dave, we have a person who says what he is going to do and does it. He has ventured forth into the belly of the beast and taken his lumps with the employee groups. Yet, he never wavered. Now, we see, he is willing to go before a national audience and tweak the noses of DAL,CAL,AAL,NWA. He has made it known US Airways is no longer a doormat. God, how refreshing.
I don''t know if Dave is the new Herb or Richard Branson. I do know he is making it fun to come to work again. I do know he watches Austin Powers rather than the Wine Channel. I like that.
I hope that in a year or eighteen months, the pundits and talking heads will be extolling the virtues of US Airways and the remarkable turnaround of this once beleaguered airline. If that occurs, I will gladly don my Fat Bastard costume, dress my dog as Mine-me and march down Jefferson Davis Highway for no other reason than to say, I am a proud to be an employee of US Airways.
This skeptic has been transformed into a believer. In Dave, we have a person who says what he is going to do and does it. He has ventured forth into the belly of the beast and taken his lumps with the employee groups. Yet, he never wavered. Now, we see, he is willing to go before a national audience and tweak the noses of DAL,CAL,AAL,NWA. He has made it known US Airways is no longer a doormat. God, how refreshing.
I don''t know if Dave is the new Herb or Richard Branson. I do know he is making it fun to come to work again. I do know he watches Austin Powers rather than the Wine Channel. I like that.
I hope that in a year or eighteen months, the pundits and talking heads will be extolling the virtues of US Airways and the remarkable turnaround of this once beleaguered airline. If that occurs, I will gladly don my Fat Bastard costume, dress my dog as Mine-me and march down Jefferson Davis Highway for no other reason than to say, I am a proud to be an employee of US Airways.
