Chris Chiames On Network news

[EyeInTheSky]

He flat out blamed the employees. Now, I don't know about you, but the buck stops with management or in this case the complete mismanagement of US Airways. Forget full pay to the last day; the flunkies in CCY motto is: mismangement til bust.

 

[4merresrat]

He flat out blamed the employees. Now, I don't know about you, but the buck stops with management or in this case the complete mismanagement of US Airways. Forget full pay to the last day; the flunkies in CCY motto is: mismangement til bust.

[post="231998"][/post]​

At this point laying blame is not the issue. The issue is will the employees be up to the task ahead and getting over their resentment and anger and attempt to salvage the company. By the sounds of many posters, it doesn't look very promising.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

4merresrat, true. However, the company wouldn't have made it this long if it weren't for the employees ongoing professionalism and personal sacrifices. Seems to me that it was poor planning on management's part not to have a back up plan. Then again, I am hallucinating when I say back-up plan and US Airways management in the same sentence. It's the same ole same ole with the drooling retards at CCY; blame everything going wrong on the employees and take their money too.

 

[N924PS]

He flat out blamed the employees. Now, I don't know about you, but the buck stops with management or in this case the complete mismanagement of US Airways. Forget full pay to the last day; the flunkies in CCY motto is: mismangement til bust.

[post="231998"][/post]​

He didn't blame ALL the employees. Just the ones responsible.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

He didn't blame ALL the employees. Just the ones responsible.

[post="232004"][/post]​

Sure he did.

 

[autofixer]

The GOOD NEWS is, no-one watches ABC News anymore.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

The GOOD NEWS is, no-one watches ABC News anymore.

[post="232010"][/post]​

True. I guess 59,000,000 right-wingers have taken a hankering to FoxNews. :blink:

 

[Justme]

The GOOD NEWS is, no-one watches ABC News anymore.

[post="232010"][/post]​

No, that's CBS that nobody watches anymore.

 

[oldiebutgoody]

It doesn't matter who he blames. With the management UAIRQ has now, they'll be OOB by the end of next month.

 

[PITbull]

At this point laying blame is not the issue. The issue is will the employees be up to the task ahead and getting over their resentment and anger and attempt to salvage the company. By the sounds of many posters, it doesn't look very promising.

[post="231999"][/post]​

Ammeresrat,

Your post is the true question....

On Rueters story today, and the PIT Gazette yesterday reported by Amy Kudwa that there was no union orchestrated "sick out".

Chiames and Amy need to get together to coordinate their stories.

 

[shinbal]

Finally, my first post on USAviation, after a long period of lurking; and I'm sure many will wish it to be my last.

I flew Allegheny as a kid, and then grew up with US Air. I've flown expensive connections when WN nonstops were cheaper and easier. I've loved my FF benefits. I've defended this airline through everything from my first flight in 1969. I've done it because I've always believed that the airline employees' and management's first priority was to get me from point A to point B on time to the best of their ability, safely, and with a wish for future business.

Even when Rakesh Gangwal's brilliant idea of cost savings was to eliminate blankets on planes, I stayed. I made excuses when my boss and I paid over $1,500 apiece for tickets and were served box meals in first class on a transcon (LAS-CLT, 6/2002) when superior premium products were available elsewhere.

This weekend's actions showed me, however, that I can no longer count on US Airways to get me from point a to point b. In my opinion, it's a tertiary priority at best to some in the labor group. priority #1 is showing the world that management sucks. I truly feel for those who have lost wages. But the fact of the matter is, the airline has some of the highest costs in the industry. Bring down the costs, including labor, or the business goes bankrupt. Then, the point-a-to-point-b customer chooses another airline, and life goes on.

Moreover, if it's not management's problem, it must be the awful customer paying the $199 fares. As one who pays $850 RT for the 38 minute midweek flight to PIT from BWI every three weeks, but who can also fly for $150 transcon, I've never disagreed that your revenue management folks and their 31 fare classes are out to lunch. The fact is, it's a complicated industry. What's not complicated, though, is the point-a-to-point-b philosophy. People will simply get on an airline on whom they can rely to take them from point a to point b. I love my ff miles, but my father flew for years before any airline offered him more than a seat. I dare say I can do the same.

This weekend's actions were fare more devastating than the results demonstrated in a few news reports. They once-a-year "going to see Aunt Peg for Christmas" flier will now go on another airline. No big deal. The real problem is that US Airways is now losing the "point a to point b" confidence of some of its most dedicated customers. And it doesn't matter what the wages end up being, how much management screws labor, how much labor hates management. Without customer confidence, without people getting on the planes, it's all "pointless".

 

[SalesGuyCCY]

Sure he did.

[post="232006"][/post]​

Why don't they fire that MORON Al Crellen?? The buck should stop with him at the head of ops?! Also, Chiames and and the rest of the crew should go too!

I think Chapter 7 is sooner than one thinks--and I for one, won't lose ANY sleep over it!

Ex-CCYSalesGuy

 

[skyflyr69]

Finally, my first post on USAviation, after a long period of lurking; and I'm sure many will wish it to be my last.


shinbal-newbie: welcome to the WORLDS worst Forum board for ANY Airline. 106000+ posts by mostly disgruntled U employees who like to air their dirty laundry in the public forum. Whereas other airline employees keep it in house like American. I have switched to AA awhile back and they have some of the same issues but they know about this websight and basically keep it in house.
It will be a nice study in the human mindset as to why a group of surly employees will trash their employer on a public websight.
would not happen where i work!
Anyway , you won't have to worry about this sight ( U ) much longer as they have SEALED their fate by their actions. No judge will allow this group to stay employed. It WILL be imposed if the creditors don't pull the plug which i expect before january 6th.
So long Usairways: Hello LUV and AA and Delta.

 

[Winglet]

You're right shinbal. The underlying problem is that Lakefield has not a clue on transforming the airline. What he's trying to do is run U like it always has . . . a hub and spoke airline with an irrational fleet. By definition, that's going to be a higher cost airline. What he wants to do is take those inefficiencies and added costs and subtract it from employee compensation. He can't have it both ways. U CEOs have utterly failed to lead this company. In fact, they've looted the company with acquiesence of the BOD.

I think that a very substantial percentage of the employees are fed up. They see U managers as ruining their career, and now they're refusing to bail Lakefield out of his fundamentally flawed business plan.

There are some of the more senior employees that are willing to throw anybody junior to them under the bus just to keep the circus going. Well, the junior employees are people too, so don't blame them for not "going quietly" and taking the bullet so Lakefield and his execs can stuff their pockets.

Either everybody wins, or nobody does. That's real "team" spirit, not the cheap jargon taught in business school.

 

[AP Tech]

Is that the same "we have no plans to farm out heavy maintenence" Chris Chiames? You truly can believe what he says!!!!!!