Pittsburgh Parable (Flightglobal Article)

[wnbubbleboy]

US Airways will retain an operations facility it is building in Pittsburgh, so the workforce will not drop from its 1,800 level - a shadow of its former payroll of 9,000 workers.

But the news failed to shake Pittsburgh's aviation leaders, who had read the writing on the wall. As the legacy carriers shrank in response to the 9/11 downturn and as US Airways went through its two bankruptcy reorganisations, the city elders had accepted that Pittsburgh would no longer be a major connecting point as it had been for decades and had recruited the likes of AirTran, JetBlue and even Southwest, the US Airways-killer.






http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/...hs-parable.html

 

[swflyer]

Southwest, the US Airways-killer.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/...hs-parable.html

IMHO, this is just hyperbole, designed to sell newspapers, and only contributes to bad feelings between employee groups.

Management, at both carriers, is charged with making decisions to keep a Company successful. The airline industry is littered with stories of management seemingly forgetting this goal, pursuing strategies that ultimately fail, or stumbling into blind, dumb luck and succeeding. SWA wasn't originally going to fly 737's, for example.

All airlines are designed to carry passengers. How we do that is how each Company is differentiated. Our President is quoted as saying, "And I think one of the reasons that the general public accepts us is because we have never purported to be all things to all people. We know who we are." (St. Pete Times article)

I just haven't found, "the US Airways-killer" anywhere in our playbook.

Again, IMHO.

 

[wnbubbleboy]

IMHO, this is just hyperbole, designed to sell newspapers, and only contributes to bad feelings between employee groups.

Management, at both carriers, is charged with making decisions to keep a Company successful. The airline industry is littered with stories of management seemingly forgetting this goal, pursuing strategies that ultimately fail, or stumbling into blind, dumb luck and succeeding. SWA wasn't originally going to fly 737's, for example.

All airlines are designed to carry passengers. How we do that is how each Company is differentiated. Our President is quoted as saying, "And I think one of the reasons that the general public accepts us is because we have never purported to be all things to all people. We know who we are." (St. Pete Times article)

I just haven't found, "the US Airways-killer" anywhere in our playbook.

Again, IMHO.

I think this is "sour grapes" inferred by the Author of the story. Although I have worked for Usair a the along time ago and if nothing has changed my guess is the ONLY Usairways killer will not be Southwest, but their own management team.

 

[Be Careful What You Wish For.]

sour grapes" inferred by the Author of the story.

Sour grapes from the 'burgh? They live on sour grapes-it's a sport in PA.

Same story different day. If it's not the U then it will be WN for not running the universe through the city.

They can't quite realize they're not that important.

 

[Travels2mch]

my guess is the ONLY Usairways killer will not be Southwest, but their own management team.

Truer words have never been spoken....er....typed.

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

I've often thought that PIT would be an excellant Focus city, or perhaps a second hub, for a carrier like Frontier.

 

[trvlr64]

Sour grapes from the 'burgh? They live on sour grapes-it's a sport in PA.

Same story different day. If it's not the U then it will be WN for not running the universe through the city.

They can't quite realize they're not that important.

Hey BCWYWF............what is your hardon for the people of PIT? Every chance you get you lambblast in your replies about how the people of PIT feel about something.

Get over it already.

Have you ever lived in PIT?

I grew up there, lived in Winston-Salem, San Diego, NYC, New Jersey, back to Pittsburgh and now I'm living in Ft Lauderdale. And let me tell you something............I'll take someone from Pittsburgh OVER any other area that I have lived in. There are good and bad things about every city I've lived in.

Every one complains and whines..............lords know you do it on here enough too.

So once again, get over yourself already.