mda shutdown
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Travelpro72
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See you all at mainline (not that you all were not mainline already) soon enough. A page on a bad decision will soon be closed. Gone with the bafoons who created the mess.
So sad...hopefully all of the employees are returned to mainline and acknowleged as so. Let's hope at some point the aircraft do too... US Airways employees have made multiple sacrifices, they deserve the growth, not new hires at outside Express companies.
A lower wage scale for smaller capacety jets would help. Mainline pilots and flight attendants just are not cost competative.
Really? MidAtlantic F/As were mainline F/As, and they operated the planes under a weaker contract than Republic, with pay for a 5 year employee roughly the same as an RP new hire. Didn't help them in the end when it came time for those management bonuses... Technically there WAS a mainline 170 wage scale for pilots... and it sucked, again it was lower than some regionals, which is pretty humiliating for the 10-15 year US pilots flying it. The in-house 170 operation was always cheaper to operate than paying Republic. It's not cost we're talking about, it's lowering the emloyee count and lessening labor's power. That's what it's always been about.
There's a terrible pilot wage scale for the 190 that they could apply to the 170 as well that is competitive with contract regional airlines. US Airways F/As now have the worst contract of all of the majors, bringing all of the EMBS in house would bring new hires which would finally bring the average F/A pay expense down. How cost effective is it to have mainline fly a plane and then have a contractor fly the same one? Can't swop crews or parts, and you pay the contractor regardless of service. US calles itself an LCC but only seems to want to lower it's service levels, not actually cut costs. They could lower thier costs significantly and bring thier product up from the bottom of the industry by having one airline, or one and a single affiliate instead of the terrible product, morale killing cluster of contract companies that now do more of the flying that US itself does.
The MDA employees can hold thier head high when they return to mainline. They had a great little operation and something that was missing from the rest of the US empire- positive morale, good culture resulting in a good product- maybe that's why US killed it. They got what they deserved with Republic, the EMB operation is a joke and a horrible reflection on the new company, and morale is affected just by thier presence, and will be until the day they leave the property. That doesn't sound like good business to me.
A smart management strategy then. With that in mind, any chance that the mainline pilot contracts will remain seperated and not combined? (USAirways & American West)
