Pilots at US Airways Subsidiaries Protest Lost Jobs

[Light Years]

Good for them!

Its high time all US Airways Group employees band together to defend and reclaim OUR jobs and OUR airline.

 

[A319FA]

Thursday July 17, 4:58 pm ET

WASHINGTON, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Union leaders representing pilots at US Airways'' wholly owned subsidiaries Allegheny, Piedmont, and PSA Airlines met this week to discuss possible actions seeking a reversal of the parent airline''s recent decision to outsource new small-jet operations to Mesa Airlines.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030717/dcth052_1.html

 

[wings396]

Agreed. I know many of the ALG crews, and they are getting screwed. They are a good group that has worked hard over the years to build the Express System. Now they are losing the DH-8's starting in the fall with layoffs to follow. In the mean time Mesa is taking over thier flying with RJ's...go figure. I was told by a crewmember that ALG payscale is LOWER than Mesa's...There is no good excuse for this slick move.

 

[OldpropGuy]

It''s about time!

 

[sdavis29]

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On 7/18/2003 10:09:56 AM dashtrainer wrote:

As an ALG pilot, I believe our pay rates for the RJ are "competative" with the rest of the industry. However, ALG and PDT have a lot of senior guys (15, 20, 25 years or more) with the company, whereas Mesa probably has very few over 10 years seniority. Therefore, the cost for paying crews is a bit more expensive at ALG or PDT than Mesa.

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just a question....
while the cost of crews may be more ...would not retaining 100% of the revenues counter that and maybe add to the bottom line.

 

[dashtrainer]

As an ALG pilot, I believe our pay rates for the RJ are "competative" with the rest of the industry. However, ALG and PDT have a lot of senior guys (15, 20, 25 years or more) with the company, whereas Mesa probably has very few over 10 years seniority. Therefore, the cost for paying crews is a bit more expensive at ALG or PDT than Mesa.

 

[TBONEJ4J]

"....while the cost of crews may be more ...would not retaining 100% of the revenues counter that and maybe add to the bottom line....."

You would think!

But it seems CCY would rather pay fee-per-departure to just about every contract lift provider in the country rather than retain and manage revenue in-house.

If almost 60% of daily departures are currently ''Express'', that means 30-40% of daily departures are operated under Franchise. How long till it''s ALL Franchised?

US Airways - The World''s Leading Airline Franchise. We sell the Tickets, you just provide the Airplane.