Who Should Be Held Accountable?

[MrAeroMan]

Your thoughts...

 

[OldGuyinPA]

It's early..but the poll seems to be trending one-way


Are you listening ......BOD

 

[thepoohbear]

The sad part is they will proably show Al the door. He'll leave with millions , just like all the other leeches and he will be hired by Republic as a liason to Usairways with a substantial raise. But don't call me cynical. 😛h34r:

 

[nycbusdriver]

I just got my April copy of "Air Transport World" today and the editorial by Perry Flint (Editor-in-Chief) called: "Stop the Machine" addresses the head-in-the-sand and/or head-up-and-locked position of all of the legacy carrier upper management teams. The article talks a WHOLE LOT about the USAirways PHL Christmas meltdown, and it's very critical of our management. This is a magazine that traditionally takes the side of management and usually vilifies labor. So if ATW is critical of Lakefield and crew, you know there must be a lot of industry talk about Lakefield's screw up.

Unfortunately, the ATW website publishes their magazine a month behind the print copy, so the April issue isn't available online yet. If anyone has access to the print copy, the editorial is worth reading.

Their website it http://www.atwonline.com/

I'm not sure exactly when the April issue will be up and running. If this thread is still active, I will post the URL when it becomes available. Or maybe someone else will post it if they see it first.

 

[Hope777]

Not bad, after 88 Votes OVER 68% find Uncle Al should go ! ! ! !

 

[aerosmith]

No one will ever be held accountable. :down: I give a thumbs up to there lies and deceit as reported in the media. The general public fully believed the lie. It even influenced Judge Mitchell's decision to abrogate the IAM's contract. :down:

 

[aerosmith]

I talked to Dan Fitzpatrick of the Pittsburgh post gazette on this subject ( I also termed it the" Philadelphia fiasco") a week and a half ago. We talked about Segiel and Cohen's executive "compensation". I guess he chose not to run a story on these subjects. :down:

 

[aerosmith]

I don't think talking about the Pope is appropriate here.

 

[planeirish]

Does anyone who cares or has the authority to address this baggage problem that seems to prevail in Philadelphia want to give a reason why this problem has not been addressed in (4) months. Come on folks, is this not getting old already?

This might be a reason this airline faired so well on the University of Kansas recent survey. Have not enough customer's holidays and job interviews,weddings funerals, and vacations been destroyed by the lack of leadership to address the baggage problem?

Is there not a Gov't agency the oversees airlines and makes them accountable, how can this be allowed to continue without intervention?

Remember the saying on PA license plates that said "You have a friend in Pennsylvania". Quess who it isn't.

 

[whatkindoffreshhell]

PineyBob seems to changed his tone 180 degrees since BenB is no longer writing him mash notes on napkins.

Other people unknowingly choose to fly on USAir.

PineyBob knows the scoop and still does it anyway!

 

[Finish or Ignore]

It's not just a four month issue. baggage issues and US Airways in PHL have been around for a minimum of 5 YEARS that I've been flying.

Car services regularly charge "Waiting time" 30 minutes after the aircraft arrives and customers don't have bags.

The place is a pig sty, the TSA is uncooperative and you have to ask WHY? Are all of these people wrong and only US Airways has a clue? OR is it the other way around?

From a customer perspective US can't even maintain an elite line in PHL and they expect customers to have confidence in their ability to outsource more mission critical functions?

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Bob,
You are exactly correct. It started with the buildup at PHL by W and G. Hopefully Al will be compensated just as they were when he goes.

 

[D M G]

It started with the buildup at PHL by W and G.

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We had major issues in PHL 3 or 4 years before W&G came along. A quick example would be our old belt system. It was so bad that the company had Ramp Supervisors assigned to stand at the belts from 6:00am until 10:00pm seven days a week to clear the jams. This was in addition to the Sky Caps on the other side whose job included clearing jams. It created six full time Supervisor positions (and since we were not Union at the time it had nothing to do with a Union demanding more jobs). This went on for a couple of years until the new baggage claim opened.

Back on topic. The morons at CCY didn't give PHL the proper staffing and equipment when a ton of money was being made here, and I wouldn't expect them to throw any money at this place now that PHL isn't the money maker it once was. It doesn't matter who or how many they fire, the mentality at CCY will never change.

 

[Finish or Ignore]

We had major issues in PHL 3 or 4 years before W&G came along. A quick example would be our old belt system. It was so bad that the company had Ramp Supervisors assigned to stand at the belts from 6:00am until 10:00pm seven days a week to clear the jams. This was in addition to the Sky Caps on the other side whose job included clearing jams. It created six full time Supervisor positions (and since we were not Union at the time it had nothing to do with a Union demanding more jobs). This went on for a couple of years until the new baggage claim opened.

Back on topic. The morons at CCY didn't give PHL the proper staffing and equipment when a ton of money was being made here, and I wouldn't expect them to throw any money at this place now that PHL isn't the money maker it once was. It doesn't matter who or how many they fire, the mentality at CCY will never change.

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I will agree with you on that point. But who vastly increased service there without addressing those problems?

 

[Hope777]

As said and shown here as well as accross the SYSTEM, AL MUST GO ! ! ! !
HE DECIDES STAFFING and it shows he DOES NOT CARE. Even the DOT has found USAirways to be at fault for the PHL Fiasco and it continures, how can this be?

 

[D M G]

I will agree with you on that point. But who vastly increased service there without addressing those problems?

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I guess it depends on when you consider PHL to have "vastly increased". It was someone under Schofield, (Randy Malin?), that saw the potential for PHL and led the push for growth. IMO the PHL operation vastly increased when we took over the last four gates on B-con from TWA and all the gates on C-con from Midway. We went from 11 gates to about 30 in a short amout of time, and this was before W&G. I'm not sure who got the ball rolling with the new ticket counter and baggage claim, but it was finished while W&G were here.

I agree that W&G expanded the operation at PHL and did almost nothing to solve the issues, but major expansion and problems existed before they even came on board.