Airline may choose HQ soon
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Interesting. IF this thing goes through, maybe Parker should consider a neutral State, rather than creating a negative aura right out of the gate that he favors Phoenix or Atlanta.
Yeah . . . like maybe Arlington VA? I hear there is an appropriate office building sitting empty in Crystal City?
PA18
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- Aug 12, 2004
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Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin opposes the merger and recently blasted US Airways' customer service in a column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Amazing, isn't it?
When a city has a dominant, viable airline, the public, the press, and the politicians love to beat the crap out of it.
Minneapolis hates Northwest. Atlanta hates Delta. Miami hates American. Philadelphia hates US Airways (and that feeling is mutual).
But the minute there is the slightest hint that the airline is going to downsize, or de-hub, or move its headquarters, the sentiment suddenly becomes, 'Oh, woe is us; we're losing our hometown airline.'
Gee, did it ever occur to you to support the hometown airline? You know, the one that whose service draws companies -- and jobs -- into your area?
Several years ago, the mayor of Pittsburgh grandstanded by driving to Cleveland to get a cheaper airfare than US Airways. That would be like the mayor of Detroit buying a Toyota. Well, Pittsburgh now has Southwest, JetBlue, Valujet, and about a billion RJ's; but no trans-Atlantic flights and very few west coast non-stops.
'Happy now, Bozo?
The city of Charlotte went from a one-horse town to the second largest banking center in the country behind New York. Do you suppose that had anything to do with US Airways providing the city with way more non-stop flights to way more destinations than any other cities of comparable size have? Has the airline gotten an ounce of credit for the city's success?
Yet, the day that the US/DL merger was announced, the pols and the pundits were all over the landscape crying about Charlotte losing its hub status to Atlanta. And vice versa in Atlanta.
And now both Atlanta and Phoenix are agonizing over losing the "new Delta" headquarters to the other city. (This seems a bit premature, considering that the merger "talk" is still just that. 'Sort of like naming your starting pitcher for Game One of the World Series while still in spring training.)
As Joni Mitchell wrote, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?"
Amazing, isn't it?
When a city has a dominant, viable airline, the public, the press, and the politicians love to beat the crap out of it.
Minneapolis hates Northwest. Atlanta hates Delta. Miami hates American. Philadelphia hates US Airways (and that feeling is mutual).
But the minute there is the slightest hint that the airline is going to downsize, or de-hub, or move its headquarters, the sentiment suddenly becomes, 'Oh, woe is us; we're losing our hometown airline.'
Gee, did it ever occur to you to support the hometown airline? You know, the one that whose service draws companies -- and jobs -- into your area?
Several years ago, the mayor of Pittsburgh grandstanded by driving to Cleveland to get a cheaper airfare than US Airways. That would be like the mayor of Detroit buying a Toyota. Well, Pittsburgh now has Southwest, JetBlue, Valujet, and about a billion RJ's; but no trans-Atlantic flights and very few west coast non-stops.
'Happy now, Bozo?
The city of Charlotte went from a one-horse town to the second largest banking center in the country behind New York. Do you suppose that had anything to do with US Airways providing the city with way more non-stop flights to way more destinations than any other cities of comparable size have? Has the airline gotten an ounce of credit for the city's success?
Yet, the day that the US/DL merger was announced, the pols and the pundits were all over the landscape crying about Charlotte losing its hub status to Atlanta. And vice versa in Atlanta.
And now both Atlanta and Phoenix are agonizing over losing the "new Delta" headquarters to the other city. (This seems a bit premature, considering that the merger "talk" is still just that. 'Sort of like naming your starting pitcher for Game One of the World Series while still in spring training.)
As Joni Mitchell wrote, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?"
PHLfa88
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- Jan 19, 2004
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This Is THE Best Thing I Have Read In a Long Time! Shirley Franklin Can't Even Control Her Police Dept Let Alone Anything Else!!
NYCDelta
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You're absolutely right! People in Cincinnati hate DL, yet if we left, I doubt anyone would swoop in with international and coast-to-coast service. And if they did-they'd probably charge the same as we do!
ClueByFour
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whatkindoffreshhell
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Corp HQ remains in AZ.
Ops center etc remains in ATL.
Everybody goes home happy and minimal disruption.
Ops center etc remains in ATL.
Everybody goes home happy and minimal disruption.
PA 18
Great post. It "kinda" gets you thinking about loyalty.
I remember reading a while ago "a good customer isn't always a loyal customer, and a loyal customer isn't always a good customer.
Just because you fly alot, or the airline is in your city donsen't mean you are loyal if you go to another airline to save a few bucks
Great post. It "kinda" gets you thinking about loyalty.
I remember reading a while ago "a good customer isn't always a loyal customer, and a loyal customer isn't always a good customer.
Just because you fly alot, or the airline is in your city donsen't mean you are loyal if you go to another airline to save a few bucks
PIT has some great downtown office space open! It would be funny to hear the screaming in the sandcastle.....
