Freedom,
Admittedly, this is a lousy economy. But did you read the previous posts? The flight attendants and pilots are in a different situation than the day to day US employees.
Day to day being the operative words. Flight attendants and pilots don't work everyday at US.
Didja happen to notice that Sully has an outside gig?
Think he's the only one?
During this messy past eight years, a great deal of F/As and pilots have quietly gone about assuring their future with back-ups. And if they haven't, they've been flying their keisters off getting out of debt and paying off their mortgages. I am talking about Senior f/as here, who make up the majority of US F/As. They're within shouting distance of retirement, and they've got a lot of reasons to be bitter, and hence uncooperative.
We are also talking about 2011. Not 2009. Everyone expects this downturn/recession/ mess to have made its bloody way through by then. Throw in the fact that you have a management that routinely rewards itself with high salaries and sorry, I'm made of granite by now.
That's another thing. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't hear a lot of whining from F/As or pilots about this economy. More like, well, welcome to the party folks, the beer's almost gone. We all dealt with a depression years ago.
If US goes down, the textbooks will not blame it on the employees. They will cite the abysmal management that US has suffered for years. You can't fix attitude problems without offering something in return. As usual, this management wants everything for free. You can't get that from people you've already robbed. All you can do is beat them up.
Well if todays big announcement is that we will no longer charge for beverages .....That is just one tiny pimple on the face.
