Kirby's faux pas

[zethya]

I just knew Kirby's comment would come back to haunt him and the airline. Here are Spirit's and Jet Blue's responses to US's Charlotte-Bogota application to the DOT (Select "Open"):

Refer to Page 6 of Spirit's Reply:

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/Cont...contentType=pdf

"Spirit’s commitment to Latin America surpasses US Airways’s, as US Airways serves no South American destinations, only Central American and Caribbean destinations. See Ex. US-301. Moreover, even US Airways President Scott Kirby himself has admitted that US Airways has not had great success with its own international operations from Philadelphia, describing their service in the summer of
2007 as “a very bad international operation, which a number of our customers experienced.â€￾"

Refer to Page 2 of JetBlue's Reply:

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/Cont...contentType=pdf

"As the President of U.S. Airways has candidly admitted, his carrier simply does not provide very good international service."

US needs to rebut these submittals with the correct intent of the comments before year end.

 

[luvthe9]

Come on give him a break , he's young but also stupid

 

[luvn737s]

The quote was also taken out of context. But that's SOP here as US Gripeviation

 

[Dog Wonder]

Does that make Kirby any smarter?

 

[88 B.T.D.]

Scott was talking about ops at PHL; this international service would be out of CLT. (Not that it would automatically be better, but likely)

 

[Dog Wonder]

Does that make Kirby any smarter?

 

[Prince of PAWOBs]

The quote was also taken out of context. But that's SOP here as US Gripeviation

Are you refering to the quote from the Jet Blue reply?

 

[luvn737s]

Who is Spirit to lecture anyone on bad performance? They owned no gates at their hub city of DTW not many years back and had to beg other airlines for gate space on a daily basis. Many flights arrived with no gate until some other airlines flight departed.

Here's some recent info on your vaunted Spirit. http://realitybitesback.blogspot.com/2007/...ee-no-evil.html

But Piney I know your holiday joy comes from finding anything to slam US about. If you lived in TX you'd slam AA, if in DTW, you'd hate NW. So thoroughly enjoy your complaining and ignore that there hasn't been another Christmas meltdown and that unlike Christmas of only a couple years ago, employees aren't really wondering if the'll have a job to come back to tomarrow.

 

[pilot]

Keep your blinders on there Spanky. Had you ever worked for an airline that knew what it was doing you'd figure out what Piney and the rest of us are talking about.

 

[dexter]

Scott did it to himself ! Pilot and Piney are correct. Its all about the $$$$ that goes in their pockets because we are a low cost (no frills whatsoever) and they could give a hoot about the customers flying or their frontline employees. How hard is it for them to find SOMEONE who knows how to run and efficient airline?

 

[skyguy]

Come on give him a break , he's young but also stupid

Yes . . . but he's so cute! I wouldn't knock him out of bed for eating cookies!

 

[john john]

What did Kirby say (does anybody have the link) about our front line work force and their future career with the new USAirways

 

[dexter]

John John, Kirby probably stated the same thing they tell all of us here at wonderland, "if you have 20 plus years with this company do not consider it a career"!

 

[The Man]

So thoroughly enjoy your complaining and ignore that there hasn't been another Christmas meltdown and that unlike Christmas of only a couple years ago, employees aren't really wondering if the'll have a job to come back to tomarrow.

 

[luvn737s]

This is probably why Spirit is trying to smear US

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/...s-at-aires.html