Were There Pay Offs?

[buhbye]

It is just something to ponder?

If you do think there were persons paid off; then who?

 

[Hopeful]

TWA boss Compton!

 

[AMFAMAN]

Carty and his boys, Jim Little, IAM(1 years worth of dues), OneFlyer....

 

[buhbye]

Carty and his boys, Jim Little, IAM(1 years worth of dues), OneFlyer....

[post="253302"][/post]​

In my opinion it also seems possible there were some on the AA side?

 

[twaokc]

I wonder how much Compton has to pay for his health insurance and for his passes on AA.

 

[MCI transplant]

I wonder how much Compton has to pay for his health insurance and for his passes on AA.

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<_< With the money Compton made when he left TWA, he don't have to worry about health insurance, or passes!!!!!

 

[MCI transplant]

<_< Not bad for a man with only an A.A. Degree!!!! 😛 , Now there's a pone!!!!! 😛

 

[JFK777]

TWA was a great airline until Icahn got it. IT ended sadly but it could have shut down like Eastern and everyone would have gotten the shaft. AA saw some value in TWA and atleast preserved some jobs in St. Louis, kept most of the TWA fleet, and the Kansas City overhaul operation. Any saying" TWA would have survived 9/11 and current oil" must be one of two things: insane or an arab with his own oil firm. " TWA's managers did the best they could with what little they had. It was surprising it lasted as long as it did. I will fondly remember my trips in Ambassador Class to Europe in the 1980's on the great 747's from JFK. Long may the queen of the skies rule.

 

[MCI transplant]

TWA was a great airline until Icahn got it. IT ended sadly but it could have shut down like Eastern and everyone would have gotten the shaft. AA saw some value in TWA and atleast preserved some jobs in St. Louis, kept most of the TWA fleet, and the Kansas City overhaul operation. Any saying" TWA would have survived 9/11 and current oil" must be one of two things: insane or an arab with his own oil firm. " TWA's managers did the best they could with what little they had. It was surprising it lasted as long as it did. I will fondly remember my trips in Ambassador Class to Europe in the 1980's on the great 747's from JFK. Long may the queen of the skies rule.

[post="266646"][/post]​

<_< TWA's management problems go back further than Uncle Carl! And let's put the credit where it belongs! From someone who lived through it, it was TWA's employees that kept TWA flying! It's managers had little to do with it!!!!

 

[JFK777]

MCI,

The employees of TWA certainly did their large part to keep their airline flying. Management was handcuffed though, it didn't replace the 747 or L-1011 with more efficient airplanes in the late 1980's. TWA should have gotten a large fleet of 25 767-300ER, it didn't. The A330's uncle Carl ordered never made it past the files their contracts were kept in. 757's in 1996 were fine planes, but not the right aircraft for an Atlantic operation, they were good for St. Louis. It was a long decline, sadly.

 

[MCI transplant]

MCI,

The employees of TWA certainly did their large part to keep their airline flying. Management was handcuffed though, it didn't replace the 747 or L-1011 with more efficient airplanes in the late 1980's. TWA should have gotten a large fleet of 25 767-300ER, it didn't. The A330's uncle Carl ordered never made it past the files their contracts were kept in. 757's in 1996 were fine planes, but not the right aircraft for an Atlantic operation, they were good for St. Louis. It was a long decline, sadly.

[post="266774"][/post]​

<_< JFK----- All what you say are true, but it was the prevoius management, prior to Ichan, that tryed to break out the Unions, when it couldn't, went after Frank Lorenzo and had him make a run on TWA! It was this same management that went in front of a covention of bankers and bragging it had a $400mil. war chest to break the Pilot's Union! And how undervalued the stock was at that time!But guess who was in the audiance? You guessed it! Uncle Carl! He got on the phone, and started to buying TWA stock! His original intent was to just get in and get what he could and get out! But that was not to be!!! Management backed Lorenzo to take the company and break the Unions! The Unions ended up going to Ichan to counter Lorenzo, thinking he was the lesser of two evils! The rest is history!!!This was the same management that least two junker 747's sold the seats on them for the up and comming summer season, outsourced the "C" checks on them to get them ready to fly, and when the scab outfit it outsourced to couldn't deliver on time, ended up leasing two other 747's from ( I forget who) to cover those sold seats!!!It go'es on, and on!!! The Government C-9 Contract here at MCI, was another fiascal!!! At one point I've heard Ichan concidered buying American Airlines! Now that would have been something!!! 🙂

 

[AMFAMAN]

<_< At one point I've heard Ichan concidered buying American Airlines! Now that would have been something!!! 🙂

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He would of loved the twu. Instead of the IAM favorite..."For $2 less, I'll do what I-CAN." With the twu it would have been, "For $5 less, I-CAN, I-CAN."

 

[MCI transplant]

This is the same management that when cought outsourcing our work, agreed to pay us dollar for dollar for work done by said scab outfit! (We never saw a penny of it!!!)

 

[MCI transplant]

He would of loved the twu. Instead of the IAM favorite..."For $2 less, I'll do what I-CAN." With the twu it would have been, "For $5 less, I-CAN, I-CAN."

[post="266839"][/post]​

<_< That's what I like! A man with a since of hummor! But believe me, from someone who's been there, Ichan is no joke!! :down: