PHLfa88
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2009 LAYOFFS
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Maybe so, but from a customer perspective, PIT was a gem. It was very easy to make connections, and not subject to the same choking ATC issues as PHL.
Customers don't think about the high costs of operating a hub in PIT. If PIT was too costly for US to operate as a hub, they should have come up with a Plan B for connecting pax which did not involve PHL. PHL just got worse and worse the more US stripped its PIT service.
And US lost a very valuable component of their operation when they divested themselves of a Midwestern hub. The "barbell" hub structure is just not convenient for pax flying to the Midwest who must make a connection. These customers just take their business elsewhere.
freedom
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there will be more cuts than that next year ...
To all of our new hires , i strongly urge you to find a second job just in case , the same goes to anyone with low seniority ..
alot of people think " oh good the us economy is recovering " uh , no .... it's continuing to die .. if this holidays retail season flops like i think it will , there will be layoff's more massive than citi's 26000 workers ...
Travel is a luxury , when people no longer have jobs they won't travel ... when people are scared of losing their jobs , they will save up , and that means they won't travel ... our industry is in extream danger . prepare yourselves as best you can .
freedom
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go to the water cooler o man , read my thread called "US ECONMY DOOMED " you'll notice that i pointed out that oil would only begin to drop after the US economy had received it's death blow .... guess what happened ?
As to how i used to point out the fact that the price of has was rising every week when we were fighting in the IAM threads to get a new contract , that was simply a FOIL designed to draw in the short sighted workers , a scare tactic if you would ... althou it was a valid tequence because even i was scared lol ..but lucky it worked , and now we have a new contract , otherwise we'd be going into 2009 with nothing ... yeah ....
but back to my point everyone , the rest of you can chose to believe that the sky isn't actually falling , or you can take steps to protect yourselves by taking on a second job ....(do it , get second jobs )
orioleman
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you said in the other thread there are no jobs out there . SO I'm guessing it would be hard to get a second
job. Why don't you try this . You do what you have to survive and let everyone else do what they need
to do to survive. NO one really needs the advice you hand out cause it's a joke.
job. Why don't you try this . You do what you have to survive and let everyone else do what they need
to do to survive. NO one really needs the advice you hand out cause it's a joke.
freedom
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the unemployment rate stands at 6.5 percent give or take , so it's still possible to get a job , maybe ....
do whatever you have to in order to land one .... lie , cheat whatever , make sure your secure , you can risk it by listening to O man ...
or you can take my advise , advise from a simple baggage handler , warning you about dire economic doom !!!!!!!!!
lol
do whatever you have to in order to land one .... lie , cheat whatever , make sure your secure , you can risk it by listening to O man ...
or you can take my advise , advise from a simple baggage handler , warning you about dire economic doom !!!!!!!!!
lol
My advise (sic) would be to stay away from Freedom's Guyanese grape kool-aid and predictions of "dire economic doom." Such drama.
freedom
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no , i'm with the "it gets darkest before it goes totally black " crowd ..
do you know what the builders confidence level is (its an economic report that just came out yesterday )
it's NINE .... as in the single digit 9 .... now that would be great if it was a scale of 1-10 , ten being the highest , but its a scale of 100 , and that reading of nine is the lowest in the surveys history stretching back to 1959
that's a wonderful uplifting message about the banks lending more to whomever ... but guess what , everyone has pulled back except for the very wealthy ... so .... lend all you want , maybe the top 5% of this country can carry us all on their backs to economic safety .... ah hahaha the person at Forbes who wrote that article is a moron! ah hahaha
no , if you want to know how it's going to go down , you need to listen to me , a simple baggage handler ...
2008 - holiday sales set new records for not selling a damn thing ...
jan 2009 - layoffs begin 100,00 k jobs lost - stocks begin to fall
febuary 2009 , more layoff's LIBOR increases , stocks fall - margin calls
march 2009 - state budgets strain under the rising unemployment costs and get hurt even more from lack of retail taxes , unemployment rises to 7.5 percent , layoffs continue , stocks continue to fall , libor continues to rise , world wide econmines begin to suffer , poltical pressure on the TARP for general bail outs , structural weakness begins to show across the entire US economy , the hushed talk about the credit raiting of the US being down graded begins to increase , foreclosures are continuing to rise and accelerate ...
april ---- every thing goes back to normal --- just kidding , april fools!!
cycle of destruction continues ...
do you know what the builders confidence level is (its an economic report that just came out yesterday )
it's NINE .... as in the single digit 9 .... now that would be great if it was a scale of 1-10 , ten being the highest , but its a scale of 100 , and that reading of nine is the lowest in the surveys history stretching back to 1959
that's a wonderful uplifting message about the banks lending more to whomever ... but guess what , everyone has pulled back except for the very wealthy ... so .... lend all you want , maybe the top 5% of this country can carry us all on their backs to economic safety .... ah hahaha the person at Forbes who wrote that article is a moron! ah hahaha
no , if you want to know how it's going to go down , you need to listen to me , a simple baggage handler ...
2008 - holiday sales set new records for not selling a damn thing ...
jan 2009 - layoffs begin 100,00 k jobs lost - stocks begin to fall
febuary 2009 , more layoff's LIBOR increases , stocks fall - margin calls
march 2009 - state budgets strain under the rising unemployment costs and get hurt even more from lack of retail taxes , unemployment rises to 7.5 percent , layoffs continue , stocks continue to fall , libor continues to rise , world wide econmines begin to suffer , poltical pressure on the TARP for general bail outs , structural weakness begins to show across the entire US economy , the hushed talk about the credit raiting of the US being down graded begins to increase , foreclosures are continuing to rise and accelerate ...
april ---- every thing goes back to normal --- just kidding , april fools!!
cycle of destruction continues ...
autofixer
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YVINTERN
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If CPI hits 15% We're all screwed anyways.
missthe727
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My crystal ball says more extended leaves will be offered plus another buy-out in spring '09 when our next merger is announced....most likely with United.
freedom
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To anyone interested, here is a long history on how we got in this mess; but leave your ideology before reading: http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/bg2127.cfm
wow that was a great read .. almost like reading history .... i cannot believe all that has transpired since the article was written in april .
