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[BoeingBoy]

Is that a Claxon making that irritating noise?

Jim

 

[BoeingBoy]

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0611/106.html
AmWest (nyse: AWA - news - people ) almost goes out of its way to cultivate rocky relations with its work force, and employee bile poisons every public interaction.

Great - a 10 year old article. Someone else is living in the past...

Jim

 

[malikie]

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0611/106.html
AmWest (nyse: AWA - news - people ) almost goes out of its way to cultivate rocky relations with its work force, and employee bile poisons every public interaction. A senior executive at a rival airline says he has never seen a carrier whose approach to workers was so confrontational. "Employees feel they're being used," he says. "It's tough to get them to win one for the Gipper."

AmWest is the kind of employer that fires people on Christmas Eve (500 technicians in early December 1995). It took nearly five years to negotiate a first contract with flight attendants. Pilots, in a fit of pique, deliberately flew extraordinarily fast to burn extra fuel. Arriving early at their destinations, they would circle to kill time. This, says a former AmWest executive, was standard practice.


America's Worst Airline?
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0611/105.html
The major carriers have turned business travel into an inescapable evil--a hair shirt with wings
America West. Even in an industry rife with screwups, crummy service and dissembling, America West stands out as a paragon of badness. It ranks worst in customer complaints, worst in lost luggage, worst in cabin comfort and next-to-worst in on-time performance. It has one thing going for it: In denied boardings (bumping ticketed passengers because a flight is oversold), it is somewhat less bad than the average airline.
http://www.forbes.com/legacy/forbes/2001/0611/airlines.shtml
Based on five criteria--complaints, lost luggage, comfort, denied boardings ("bumpings") and on-time performance--America West (nyse: AWA) ranked worst among the top ten carriers
The AmWest scrapbook includes some doozies. The carrier has stranded Bruce Babbitt and broken stewardesses' legs (in an onboard mishap). It has belittled a blind woman and engaged in behavior that some passengers deem to be racial profiling. In one incident of air rage the perpetrator was found to be an America West pilot, traveling off-duty.

Yet AmWest is only the worst in a field crowded with incompetence. The major carriers have turned business travel into an inescapable evil--a hair shirt with wings. You call an airline and are told your flight will take off on time, only to arrive at the airport and be kept waiting for hours. The food is awful, when you can get any, and thousands upon thousands of bags are misplaced or lost (see Baggage, p. 108). Airline seats seem designed for stick figures (see Comfort; p. 110). Complain about any of this and you risk arrest (see box, Seething on a Jet Plane, p. 106).

And yet again articles that are 10+ years old. Just goes to show USAPA drones can only rehash old articles again and again and again. And they still have absolutely no relivence to
what is going on today.

 

[nycbusdriver]

Great - a 10 year old article. Someone else is living in the past...

Jim

I would say the poster child for living in the past is the old, retired airline captain who needs to reminisce about his heyday by spending all his time on electronic airline forums.

 

[NoYellowNeck]

I would say the poster child for living in the past is the old, retired airline captain who needs to reminisce about his heyday by spending all his time on electronic airline forums.

He adds more to this forum then all the other easties combined.

Glad to have him here.

 

[FLYLOW22]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/06/2509666/labor-showdown-is-us-airways-latest.html

Love is in the aiiiiiiiir....

 

[NoYellowNeck]

And that's quickly coming to an end tomorrow.

 

[luvthe9]

And that's quickly coming to an end tomorrow.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/12/2523058/judge-no-temporary-order-against.html

 

[NoYellowNeck]

Expedited hearing works for me.

The TRO would have been good for only five days.

The injunction is what matters.

 

[nycbusdriver]

And that's quickly coming to an end tomorrow.

LOL! Yeah. Tell us more....

 

[nycbusdriver]

Expedited hearing works for me.

The TRO would have been good for only five days.

The injunction is what matters.

You're spinning so fast you're bound to get dizzy.

Oops. I forgot.

Your starting point is dizzy.

Maybe the doc can change your medication.

 

[Barrister]

He adds more to this forum then all the other easties combined.

Glad to have him here.

If Charles Manson had a Cactus badge backer you would love him with all your might!!

NICDOA
NPJB

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

If Charles Manson had a Cactus badge backer you would love him with all your might!!

NICDOA
NPJB

The same could be said of you.

 

[NoYellowNeck]

You're spinning so fast you're bound to get dizzy.

Oops. I forgot.

Your starting point is dizzy.

Maybe the doc can change your medication.

No spin necessary tough guy.

Next week works for me.

 

[john john]

And this toxic enviroment did not exist until the east showed up on property. Prior to the merger the relationship between management and labor was actually good.

And yet again articles that are 10+ years old. Just goes to show USAPA drones can only rehash old articles again and again and again. And they still have absolutely no relivence to
what is going on today.

Great - a 10 year old article. Someone else is living in the past...

Jim

Just making a point about HP past that a poster brought up

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0611/106.html
AmWest (nyse: AWA - news - people ) Pilots, in a fit of pique, deliberately flew extraordinarily fast to burn extra fuel. Arriving early at their destinations, they would circle to kill time. This, says a former AmWest executive, was standard practice.