PIT News from the CLT Observer

[LavMan]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/6380248.htm

 

[Hello Newman]

Earlier this year, someone posted on this board the text of a letter sent to the Pit Post Gazette pointing out that for years the community never really supported USAir's service in PIT. The article went on to say then even the mayor drove to Cle to fly Southwest. I worked in PIT during the mid 80's and remember the constant USAir bashing in the Post Gazette. This was during the lucrative Ed Colodny years when we were financially sound. Our quarterly profit figures were always buried on the Gazette's back page.
Any negative USAir news got front page publicity.
How many cities would give away the store to have an airline hub? It's as prestigious as having an NFL franchise. To lose an airline hub or a sports
team is worse than never having one to begin with.

 

[trvlr64]

. The airline's costs in Charlotte are already so low, Orr said, that "I'm embarrassed every time I give them a bill."



BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, SUCKING SOUNDS FROM CLT!!

 

[blueoceans]

The article also shows the annual salary spend and the number of employees at each base, which divided gives an average salary of over $110,000 per year (no metion as to if the numbers are burdened.) Still, it would seem that some awfully large salaries are in there skewing the numbers...

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/6380254.htm

 

[PITbull]

Keep in mind Pittsburgh has more overall employees.

 

[blueoceans]

duplicate

 

[willnotworkforfree]

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On 7/25/2003 237 PM PITbull wrote:

Keep in mind Pittsburgh has more overall employees.

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not for long....you may want to learn the words to "Song of The South".