2015 Pilot Discussion.

[Silverflyer330]

Well....Parker & his team took over the reigns of the NEW US AirWAYS, so it would appear that the OLD US Air was NOT the successor. AWA was NOT in bankruptcy at that time as well.
Just sayin'.....

For accounting reasons..........oh how we forget the small details along with the ATSB not allowing AWA to acquire jack squat.......boy you sure do live up to your reputation!

 

[Claxon]

So, if I get this right, the same group that has already lost twice in arbitration and a lawsuit over this issue, is now going to delay SLI by filing another loser lawsuit?
 
In case you idiots have not heard, AAL is a party to the McCaskill/Bond process.  AAL had $6.2 billion profit on $42 billion revenue in 2015.  If you think for one minute they are going to jeopardize a sizable portion of their cash on hand to appease some of the most ardent supporters of the scab union in a violation of federal law against a tiny minority of all AAL pilots (who BTW just got a $5.5 million legal war chest) then you are dumber than that former scab union's VP who thought Parker furloughed as a "negotiation tactic".
 
Oh, and the Nic is still the only accepted system seniorty list covering all LCC pilots, and the Nic addresses the status of the MDA pilots.
 
Carry on!!

America west pilots bring very little to merger, yet seek it all. They are the Zika pilots.

 

[Claxon]

http://youtu.be/gOtt38m97wQ



West pilots testimony at arbitration.

 

[cactusboy53]

For accounting reasons..........oh how we forget the small details along with the ATSB not allowing AWA to acquire jack squat.......boy you sure do live up to your reputation!

Keep tellin yourself that Ace...it's bound to come true.

 

[EastUS1]

Keep tellin yourself that Ace...it's bound to come true.

 
Sigh!  No worries. We all understand son. The likes of "Parker and his team" were the only sorts "you'se" could find anywhere that would actually hire you be even a poorly pretended excuse for a "Pilot"....Small wonder you'll always lovingly cherish your AWA-emblazoned knee pads.
 
Prove me wrong with that caustic assumption. Kindly name for us all so much as ONE even slightly actual airline that ever offered "you'se" a job other than AWA?..And, for even more hearty laughs; DO name just which major airlines "you'se" turned down in favor of AWA?
 
Don't forget "you'se" vast oceans of "INTEGRITY" while fumbling for a "response" there, much less anything even remotely approaching some slight semblance of an honest answer....?
 
Exercise due caution though, since "anything even remotely approaching some slight semblance of an honest answer" would establish a whole new benchmark for your posting history. So....?

 

[CallawayGolf]

For accounting reasons..........oh how we forget the small details along with the ATSB not allowing AWA to acquire jack squat.......boy you sure do live up to your reputation!

[SIZE=10.5pt]The transaction was more complex than a simple sound bite will afford. The phrase  - a reverse merger with AWA/AWH considered the acquiring company for accounting purposes - was verbiage included on an SEC form which deals almost exclusively with accounting concerns (that is where did the money come from and how would money be handled by the new entity). That said, the SEC doesn't allow corporate officers to play with words so that when one thing happens management gets to claim that the opposite happened. If it were a straight AWH acquisition, then the SEC would have expected AWH to assume control of the bankrupt LUS/AAL entity and to go by the name "America West." However, it was determined that US Airways would be the name of the new entity (cost less to change AWA assets to US assets than to go the other way, plus US had the more generic name for a transcon / international airline). So, since the AWA name would be mothballed, the language included with the SEC filing was that AWA/AWH would be the acquiring airline (the accounting / money side) but the newly combined entity would go by the acquired company's name.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]The facts of the reverse merger remain unchanged from the 2005 transaction:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]1.    [/SIZE]AWH shareholder received the largest share of the LCC stock
[SIZE=10.5pt]2.    [/SIZE]There were no US Airways shareholders, but rather a group of unsecured creditors. These also received stock issued by LCC, but not as large a portion as the AWH shareholders received
[SIZE=10.5pt]3.    [/SIZE]The senior executive team from AWA remained in positon, and most still hold those same positions with LUS and AA today
[SIZE=10.5pt]4.    [/SIZE]Few of the LUS senior executive remained once their change of control packages had run their course. In fact, many LUS senior executives had fled well before the transaction occurred.
[SIZE=10.5pt]5.    [/SIZE]The Crystal City headquarters of LUS were shut down entirely within eight months of the transaction. The senior executive suite on the eight floor of the Crystal City building was entirely vacant by the end of September 2005. That place had lots of private bathrooms with showers, a nice commercial kitchen with a Wolfe range and a Sub Zero refrigerator that only senior management had access to, until they fled.
[SIZE=10.5pt]6.    [/SIZE]Nearly all non-operational business functions were moved to Tempe (Accounting, Payroll, IT services, Revenue Management, Marketing, Labor Relations, Legal, Purchasing, Government Affairs …)

 

[EastUS1]

[SIZE=10.5pt]3.    [/SIZE]The senior executive team from AWA remained in positon, and most still hold those same positions with LUS and AA today

 
May God help you all....and the "new" American Airlines.

 

[CallawayGolf]

May God help you all....and the "new" American Airlines.

Amen. But for the grace of God, we are all without help or hope.

 

[EastUS1]

Amen. But for the grace of God, we are all without help or hope.

 
We share perfect agreement on that much.
 
P.S. I'm often amazed at how, as a species, we allow ourselves to become so easily confounded by purely transient nonsense. Admittedly from the very heart of Fantasyland; just imagine a world wherein we all actually saw even some slight shred of the bigger picture, and instead of eternally contesting with, or even warring with/killing each other...we magically found some way to work together? Just how many millions of premature graves do we all strangely feel the need to dig and fill? Why not cure cancer at least, and literally even reach for the stars instead? No matter....Unicorns riding under rainbows moment done with, and back to actual reality.

 

[prechilill]

 
"You really are that stupid" in his case has been demonstrably proven for quite a long time here, but exercise caution, lest you one day might awake to curbside graffiti that could be troublesome to fully remove: cactusboy53: "I use LARGE INDELIBLE INK PENS to color a permanent picture that will last for DECADES.  I especially like RED & GREEN."

For accounting reasons..........oh how we forget the small details along with the ATSB not allowing AWA to acquire jack squat.......boy you sure do live up to your reputation!

And what exactly was the bankruptcy judge affording you on the eve of your liquidation???
You sure you wanna go down this road with your trash can airline??? Lol. Parker happened to offer a few nickels for the scrap heading to the scrap heap and, well, here you are. You're welcome!

 

[N924PS]

We share perfect agreement on that much.
 
P.S. I'm often amazed at how, as a species, we allow ourselves to become so easily confounded by purely transient nonsense. Admittedly from the very heart of Fantasyland; just imagine a world wherein we all actually saw even some slight shred of the bigger picture, and instead of eternally contesting with, or even warring with/killing each other...we magically found some way to work together? Just how many millions of premature graves do we all strangely feel the need to dig and fill? Why not cure cancer at least, and even reach for the stars instead? No matter....Unicorns riding under rainbows moment done with, and back to actual reality.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U016JWYUDdQ

 

[CallawayGolf]

We share perfect agreement on that much.
 
P.S. I'm often amazed at how, as a species, we allow ourselves to become so easily confounded by purely transient nonsense. Admittedly from the very heart of Fantasyland; just imagine a world wherein we all actually saw even some slight shred of the bigger picture, and instead of eternally contesting with, or even warring with/killing each other...we magically found some way to work together? Just how many millions of premature graves do we all feel the need to dig and fill? No matter....Unicorns riding under rainbows moment done with, and back to actual reality.

+1 brief, momentary afflictions that shape (or reveal) character.

 

[EastUS1]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U016JWYUDdQ

 
And your "problem" with that is what?

 

[EastUS1]

+1 brief, momentary afflictions that shape (or reveal) character.

 
Indeed. We're all of us merely human beings, with far more in common than that which we always so easily and predictably allow to divide us. Oh well...."It is what it is"....and has been throughout all of history.
 
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." John Adams..Who was equally afflicted with purely wistfull fantasies that his personal efforts would in any way alter human nature.

 

[EastUS1]

You sure you wanna go down this road with your trash can airline??? Lol.

 
Honest question here, even given that you applied with "minority preferential hiring quota" issues in your favor as a female; just exactly which other airlines than AWA ever even offered you a job?...Ever? Be not the least bit bashful and proceed to fully and further impress us all about "your trash can airline" ....?