[delldude]

700UW, on Jul 29 2005, 02:07 AM, said:

The Star Alliance planes were painted in Roswell, NM, a differant vendor then leading edge who did the boeing paint jobs.
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i suppose next you'll tell us this was accomplished by non union migrants from another world?

[OTslave]

HP Manager, on Jul 27 2005, 10:30 AM, said:

What is the true and accurate story about Mr. Crellin? Due to his position, I wouldn't expect anyone in Labor to have anything nice to say but am hoping someone has some intelligent comments about the man.
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It's unfortunate that Al Crellin has developed a bad reputation. Unfortunately due to constant management blunders; the greatest and latest of which was the Christmas 2004 PHL fiasco, the reputation is well deserved.

It happened on his watch. It made nationwide news. It affected many thousands of passengers whose Christmas was ruined. It affected the holidays of the employees of the rest of the company, who had to work endless hours to get people and bags to where they had to go.

So you see, it's not just an issue of US employees unhappy about paycuts. It's an issue of an embarrassment to the employees of the company as well. It caused demoralization after poor labor relations.

If you or I had caused 1/1000 of the chaos that "Al's Follies" created for the company in December 2004, we would have been shown the door.

Most US employees feel that Al should be shown the door as well, and not be given a job of responsibility in the new organization.

In case you're not familiar with what happened in PHL during Christmas 2004
here are a couple of links that linger:
Story
Story

I hope it answers your question.

[Dont call me Shirley]

delldude, on Jul 29 2005, 04:27 PM, said:

i suppose next you'll tell us this was accomplished by non union migrants from another world?
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ROTFL!!!


Another world or not, they did a good job. And without using putty knifes on the lap joints!


(For the benefit of the HP folks who don't know what I'm talking about: Can someone please post a link to one of threads about the real reason for the ugly "no brainer" (no)paint job.

[I'm too tired at the moment.]

Another way to preserve the Cactus spirit would be for the "Cactus" radio call sign to be retained. US still uses "US Air"; I understand the reason is that ICAO doesn't like call signs longer than three syllables.

[tadjr]

Dont call me Shirley, on Jul 30 2005, 02:57 AM, said:

(For the benefit of the HP folks who don't know what I'm talking about: Can someone  please post a link to one of threads about the real reason for the ugly "no brainer" (no)paint job.

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No Brainer Plane discussion

[desertgal]

HPearlyretiree, on Jul 26 2005, 08:31 PM, said:

What is with the old livery?

I swear I still see stock footage of the old livery and Dash 8's from time to time on local "news"
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LOL! I didn't notice till you mentioned it!

[LUV2FLYHIGH]

You know, I think they just pull it from out of nowhere ...
And as far as the Cactus call signs goes.. Heck yeah we NEED TO KEEP IT!! Can't have a CACTUS DRINKING PARTY WITH OUT THE CACTUS!! Speeking of a Cactus Party I think its about time we had another one...

[a320av8r]

I'll drink to that!

[LUV2FLYHIGH]

You know, I heard form a little birdie that we are suppose to have a AWA/ US party when all is said and done, can you just think off how much fun that will be!! (I'm not one to gossip though, so let's keep it on a down low!!!)