Newark Merger Integration Test City

[Hope777]

Mainline Express ONLY applies to Customer Service. In Fleet Service, It a Class I or Class II depending on weekly flight totals, or Contracted out. Which is now the case in most cities. It is Contracted out to a WO Carrier with much smaller wages.

 

[Finish or Ignore]

STL- I think it's "mainline express."

US Airways loves it's divisions and subsidiaries. Ground handling could be done by Mainline, Mainline Express (mainline but express contracts), MidAtlantic (a division of the mainline handling only the E170s, which is the crew version of mainline express- mainline folks, express contracts), PSA (a subsidiary), Piedmont (a different subsidiary; a third subsidiary- Allegheny; was just recently absorbed into Piedmont) or it could be contracted. US keeps each of these customer service and ramp groups seperate with different contracts. Really.

US Airways likes to keep things as complicated, redundant, and bizarre as possible. Next ask how many Express carriers there are or how many different fleet types US operated four years ago if you want to hear more nonsense. 🙄

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Are you talking about SABRE? With its 17 different sign in areas and partitions within.

 

[Light Years]

Lol, I'm sure we could come up with MANY examples of the bizarre kingdom that is US Airways.

 

[desertgal]

Lol, I'm sure we could come up with MANY examples of the bizarre kingdom that is US Airways.

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Bizarre kingdom...You said it!
I've been reading over here, trying to learn about US, educate myself.
It is quite a tangled web! The more I read, the more lost I get!
I just finished a particularly scary/funny/confusing thread related to MAA (is that the same as MDA?)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say perhaps all the divisions and subdivisions could be part of the problem?
WN is the shining example of airline success, because they keep it simple.

 

[Light Years]

MidAtlantic/MAA/MDA/170 Division/EMB Division are all the same thing- a "division" of the mainline operating the E170s with mainline employees (formerly furloughed) at commuter style contracts. They are now contracting out those planes and furloughing the same people again after a year.

 

[diogenes]

The MAA division is just one example of the divisions at U.

Take the carriers under the U umbrella in the recent past - Mainline, mainline express, Chautauqua, Mesa, Allegheny, Piedmont, PSA, Jetstream, and I am sure I left some out.

Look at fleet service - Mainline class I, mainline class II, represented by IAM, the express division parcelled out to Jetstream, PI, PSA, and God knows who else, and represented by IBT or non-union.

Typical of a management that views employees as the enemy, and thus keeps them divided.

No one at U, except a few buttsmoochers, will rue the passing of CCY.

 

[Light Years]

When buying a ticket for a US flight, you could be flying:

* US Airways
* -the Embraer 170 division of US Airways (MidAtlantic)
* Piedmont Airlines (Wholly owned subsidiary of US Airways Group)
* PSA Airlines (wholly owned subsidiary of US Airways Group)
* Mesa Airlines (contract Express carrier)
* Air Midwest (contract Express carrier owned by Mesa)
* Chautauqua Airlines (contract express carrier buying the MidAtlantic planes to operate as Republic)
* Trans States Airlines (contract Express carrier)
* Colgan Air (contract express carrier)

In the last few years CCAir, Shuttle America, CommutAir, Potomac Air, Midway Airlines and others have come and gone, and Allegheny was merged into Piedmont. The US Airways Shuttle was also once a seperate airline but is now simply a brand within the mainline. MetroJet was a seperate brand within the mainline as well. And until recently, the transatlantic flights were a seperate division for crews with some cringeworthy name like the transoceanic division.

To make it more confusing, Allegheny, Piedmont and PSA were simply named after the predecessor airlines that became mainline US Airways but really have nothing to do with them. For example, the current PSA Airlines, the Dayton Ohio based CRJ operator, has absolutely nothing to do with Pacific Southwest Airlines, the California airline that USAir purchased in the 80s. It's simply Jetstream renamed PSA.

I know this because I have no life. 🙄