The workers have been furloughed....beaten down...threatned...Workers have given up pay & benefits worth millions of dollars, and it is never enough....
More millions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been poured into it...
How long will it take for the folks in charge to realize that the failures of the company come from the leadership not the average "Joe" worker...
Siegel, Gangwal, Wolfe, walked away with millions of dollars needed to operate this company...And it is taken as no big deal...
The company acquired PSA with routing in the West and squandered it...
The company has jets sitting in the desert, making payments on them, because it is to stubborn to give the work to USAIRWAYS mechanics....The company is stretched very, very thin at the airports, in Reservations with 200 calls on hold, but can easily add new managers at the drop of a hat...
While fuel costs have increasing the company has been reluctant to do fuel hedging like Southwest.....
Mr Lakefield who I believe is probably has good intensions, is not an airline man....but a financial "wheeler" and "dealer"...looking to make money and then move on to his next project....He realised Mr Siegel was lacking in his "In Your Face" attitude of "take it or leave it" conduct...
He is asking the workers to look forward...To do that is sticking your head in the sand like an ostreich..... We have been here...trying to keep this thing afloat...He is the newcomer....We have not been playing golf at the country club, ya know...
If the only plan is to again put the "burden"on the employees who have little left to pay their bills...He may say we are not a low cost carrier, when Southwest has higher employee costs, as seen in recent comparrisons between USAIRWAYS and Southwest agents done by the CWA union....
Loads are up! The economy is improving... People are getting back to travelling...
Southwest has shown that you can have both low fares & low costs by looking at the "other" costs an airline incurs....The employee costs are not higher at USAIRWAYS... It is the business plan and other associated costs....Multiple aircraft, etc...Smaller planes...Too many complicated fares..."Well I can get you there for that fare but the rules say it is good only... on a Tues or Thurs between the hours of 10Am and 12pm or 7PM and 11pm, with a maximun of a 7 day stay and a minimum of a 7 day stay, if the month has 31 days in it and it is in a leap year."...
It was written recently that USAIRWAYS would have reflected a profit if not for purchasing new regional jets...But it is not so easy to cry Wolfe and say our costs are too high, if you show a profit...It is easier to adjust the books for jet purchases, payments to Mesa, etc....
I have heard nothing of job guarantees to any workers....enough has been taken from these workers, their wives & children....
To survive the company will need to grow, price affordably, be sharp in the marketing of the company, and learn the lesson of Southwest that a "happy" employee is a "hard working", "productive" and "proud" employee! :down:
More millions of dollars in taxpayer funds have been poured into it...
How long will it take for the folks in charge to realize that the failures of the company come from the leadership not the average "Joe" worker...
Siegel, Gangwal, Wolfe, walked away with millions of dollars needed to operate this company...And it is taken as no big deal...
The company acquired PSA with routing in the West and squandered it...
The company has jets sitting in the desert, making payments on them, because it is to stubborn to give the work to USAIRWAYS mechanics....The company is stretched very, very thin at the airports, in Reservations with 200 calls on hold, but can easily add new managers at the drop of a hat...
While fuel costs have increasing the company has been reluctant to do fuel hedging like Southwest.....
Mr Lakefield who I believe is probably has good intensions, is not an airline man....but a financial "wheeler" and "dealer"...looking to make money and then move on to his next project....He realised Mr Siegel was lacking in his "In Your Face" attitude of "take it or leave it" conduct...
He is asking the workers to look forward...To do that is sticking your head in the sand like an ostreich..... We have been here...trying to keep this thing afloat...He is the newcomer....We have not been playing golf at the country club, ya know...
If the only plan is to again put the "burden"on the employees who have little left to pay their bills...He may say we are not a low cost carrier, when Southwest has higher employee costs, as seen in recent comparrisons between USAIRWAYS and Southwest agents done by the CWA union....
Loads are up! The economy is improving... People are getting back to travelling...
Southwest has shown that you can have both low fares & low costs by looking at the "other" costs an airline incurs....The employee costs are not higher at USAIRWAYS... It is the business plan and other associated costs....Multiple aircraft, etc...Smaller planes...Too many complicated fares..."Well I can get you there for that fare but the rules say it is good only... on a Tues or Thurs between the hours of 10Am and 12pm or 7PM and 11pm, with a maximun of a 7 day stay and a minimum of a 7 day stay, if the month has 31 days in it and it is in a leap year."...
It was written recently that USAIRWAYS would have reflected a profit if not for purchasing new regional jets...But it is not so easy to cry Wolfe and say our costs are too high, if you show a profit...It is easier to adjust the books for jet purchases, payments to Mesa, etc....
I have heard nothing of job guarantees to any workers....enough has been taken from these workers, their wives & children....
To survive the company will need to grow, price affordably, be sharp in the marketing of the company, and learn the lesson of Southwest that a "happy" employee is a "hard working", "productive" and "proud" employee! :down:
