Ops Center - Which one survives?

[ChrisUS]

I fail to see what difference it makes as to whether the ops center and HQ are in the same city. Somebody runs some paperwork over to be signed or something? How dated is THAT? LOL! Maybe someone can explain the advantage to me. I fail to see how it would matter. I will all comes down to dollars. Lowest cost. I also predict we will not see two colas on the merged airline. Pepsi or Coke, but not both.

 

[wings396]

What it comes down to is the size and capability of what AA already has in DFW. Given that AA is and has always been a larger airline than US, I'm sure that their facilities can hande the combined airlines. Nothing against PIT, just the reality of what things are.

 

[Real tired]

I think Hula is right. And I think Wings info is totally inaccurate.

I predict that the PIT facility will go the way of the PIT simulator bomb shelter, and the two PIT public schoolhouses that were not-very-effectively pretending to be airline crew training facilities.

Ah, the days at Carnot.

Even though it was inefficient, you have to admit it was a great time there.

I used to love training there, with all the young, beautiful new recruits that you could mingle with in the lunchroom and on break because you were the big time operator with the fancy airline job. Many fun memories of training there, and "after" training.

One problem though, being an old elementary school, some of the men's rooms were a little low, if you know what I mean.

 

[Bogey]

I'm hearing more rumors of the wholly owned all ending up in the PIT Ops Center.

 

[ContUNITEus]

OMG OMG I KNOW THE ANSWER I KNOW THE ANSWER !!!!

EVEN A SCIENTIST COULD GET THAT ONE RIGHT!!!!

 

[ContUNITEus]

TEMPE!!!!!

lol

 

[Bogey]

So does that make you a "Rocket Scientist"?

 

[ContUNITEus]

lol

That this topic is even up for discussion, seems odd to me. Sure, AA is gonna uproot everything from DFW to PIT post merger. Yep... I can see that...

 

[Bogey]

Well if you worked in either ops center, and faced having to move, you would understand why it's up for discussion.

 

[FWAAA]

lol

That this topic is even up for discussion, seems odd to me. Sure, AA is gonna uproot everything from DFW to PIT post merger. Yep... I can see that...

And the new AA will re-hub PIT.

The real question is how many employees there are at the OPs center in PIT and how many at DFW. My guess is that if the OPs center at DFW needs more employees to handle the additional flights flown by US, then some of the PIT employees will move to Texas.

 

[Bogey]

Well the problem with that is that you are using logic.

I think DFW remains, but my update was more about what will happen to Eagle, Piedmont and PSA.

 

[ContUNITEus]

I get you now Bogey... well, we never really know, everything is possible, but I think DFW will stay and PIT will close, but that'll happen a long way from now.

 

[malikie]

I get you now Bogey... well, we never really know, everything is possible, but I think DFW will stay and PIT will close, but that'll happen a long way from now.

Ops will move to DFW in about 3 years.

 

[AirwAr]

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11877808/1/7-hot-topics-in-the-us-airwaysamerican-merger.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO
Pittsburgh Ops Center
Parker indicated the Pittsburgh operations center, which employs about 600 people, will likely close, while American's larger Dallas operations center will remain open. "Generally airlines do not need two operations centers," he said, later adding: "It seems more likely you'd (keep) the bigger operations center than the smaller one, but who knows?" In any case, he said the impact is mitigated because a shutdown is about two years in the future and transfer opportunities will be offered to employees at whatever center closes.

 

[zethya]

http://www.thestreet...oo&cm_ven=YAHOO
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This all seems way too rosey for me to swallow, except of course the part about PIT.
What I'd really like someone to interpret (to see if I'm reading this correctly), is the section about PHL -

"Even if Pittsburgh suffers, Pennsylvania will benefit from the merger because US Airways' Philadelphia hub should grow. "Philadelphia becomes a bigger player in a bigger airline," Parker said. Negotiations with the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American pilots, provide an indication of Philadelphia's potential. The bankruptcy reorganization plan once backed by American CEO Tom Horton envisioned a code-sharing deal with JetBlue(JBLU), which could feed American's international flights at New York Kennedy.
As a result, American originally sought an APA contract enabling code-shares equivalent to up to 50% of domestic available seat miles. But an initial tentative contract with US Airways reduced the amount to 4% and the eventual memorandum of understanding settled on 15%. With a merger, "they decided to use US Airways as the code share partner," said aviation consultant Mann. That means more international traffic can flow through Philadelphia."

Specifically, the last sentence. Is this saying that there is now a code share agreement with Jet Blue to code share with flights through PHL as the primary international connector, rather than JFK? If that's true, then (mine and a very few other's) speculation that JFK will indeed be used primarily for international O&D and most connecting will flow through PHL is likely correct.