Us Airways Management

[Tarheel]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/9865102.htm


FLYING STANDBY | Workers jump ship

A regular feature on US Airways as the airline struggles to survive.

Workers jump ship

White-collar workers have been bailing on US Airways for better-paying jobs at low-cost carriers.From January through September, 208 management and nonunion administrative workers have quit, with about 20 percent taking higher-paying jobs at low-cost carriers, US Airways Chief Financial Officer David Davis told the bankruptcy court this week.

There also are 142 vacant management jobs now.

US Airways is cutting the pay of its managers and nonunion workers up to 10 percent, eliminating hundreds of jobs and reducing benefits to save $45 million.

Davis said US Airways needs to balance the need for management to "share the pain" other workers are experiencing against the reality of people leaving if they can earn more elsewhere.

"A substantial departure of management employees could cripple the airline," Davis said.

 

[700UW]

We should outsource their jobs like they have proposed for the rank and file in their 1113e filings.

 

[luvthe9]

I'm glad to see it, let them go and screw up some other airline. We have the absolute worst management team in the industry.

 

[reznc]

But they didn't say the percentage of union workers leaving and that needed to be taken into account of our costsavings! Also, I thought they needed the cuts because they were "top heavy", and maybe they left of their own accord because they knew they would be made to leave anyway, it isn't if the writing hasn't been on the walls at CCY for management to become leaner. DUH!

 

[BoeingBoy]

This is the line that I found interesting...

"There also are 142 vacant management jobs now."

How much of the $45 million of management "concessions" does this represent? At an average of $50,000 per year in pay/benefits it's $7.1 million (15.8% of the total). If you make the average $100,000 per year in pay/benefits, that's $14.2 million a year (31.6% of the total). Etc.

Jim

 

[delldude]

"A substantial departure of management employees could cripple the airline," Davis said.

but on the other hand,aren't they the ones who have done it already??

 

[funguy2]

This is the line that I found interesting...

"There also are 142 vacant management jobs now."

How much of the $45 million of management "concessions" does this represent? At an average of $50,000 per year in pay/benefits it's $7.1 million (15.8% of the total). If you make the average $100,000 per year in pay/benefits, that's $14.2 million a year (31.6% of the total). Etc.

Jim

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True, but furloughs, or eliminating open positions, is a valid form of cost reduction, assuming the work gets done by other over-burdened employees (which is probably the case at CCY). Hopefully, it is the "dead wood" leaving, however, at US Airways, I suspect some truly talented people are being lost.

 

[BoeingBoy]

"True, but furloughs, or eliminating open positions, is a valid form of cost reduction"

I agree, as long as the same standard applies to all groups. And therein lies the problem. For us pilots, it is said that we are 200 short, which will help alleviate furloughs from work rule changes. But where is our credit for that "cost saving" - either current shortage or future reductions?

Jim

 

[USFlyer]

Lord, I'll say this again: "Management employees" means everyone from admins to A/P analysts to HR specialists to eCommerce developers to legal to finance to scheduling to catering to etc. etc. etc. They are just as much a victim of US having no clear strategy and vision as the union folks are. And, these people have kept the airline's corporate functions running despite all of this. I know this is really hard for many on here to believe, but what happens in CCY and other management offices is actually essential to keeping the airline running.

Don't blame the day-to-day "management" employees in CCY for US's lack of vision, strategy and business plan. All three of those are the responsibility of executive and senior management. Many of the day-to-day employees have been voicing quite loudly their disdain for upper management as well.

 

[BoeingBoy]

USFlyer,

I'll be the first to apologize for using the shorthand version - management instead of "top", "senior", or "executive" management.

As for the "necessary to keep the airline running" part, so are many of us outside of CCY.

Jim

 

[USFlyer]

As for the "necessary to keep the airline running" part, so are many of us outside of CCY.

[post="189271"][/post]​

Agreed. I apologize if I implied otherwise. You need pilots, F/As, mechanics and ticket/res agents as much as you need folks to price, market, sell, track, etc. the product. I think everyone agrees, non-union, union, customers, analysts, etc., that US hasn't exactly had the world's best top management team over the years.

 

[usfliboi]

Us air has no less vision than every other legacy carriers... Its the industry (ding DONG) not the management.

 

[700UW]

No it is the management.

Lets see, WN and CO are not having any labor-management problems and niether airline laidoff employees due to 9/11.

And I don't see any airline that has decided to make their employees the enemies except US.

 

[Bohica]

No problem.
Plenty of laid off workers to chose from to replace the management. Promote from within....

BOHICA

 

[Harry Callahan]

. Its the industry (ding DONG) not the management.

[post="189287"][/post]​

You are more crazy than I thought. BEND OVER