Pittsburgh Airport

[Twicebaked]

The Pittsburgh International Airport was ranked #1 yet again in the country and #3 in the world.

Okay, what good is it? It'sprimary resident is US Airways. This management is turning us into an industry joke.

 

[cavalier]

The Pittsburgh International Airport was ranked #1 yet again in the country and #3 in the world.

Okay, what good is it? It'sprimary resident is US Airways. This management is turning us into an industry joke.

Twice...know what they say....built it and they will come.…

U or NO U

Gee, hope pit doesn't read this, I might get a whipping again :unsure:

 

[PHL]

The Pittsburgh International Airport was ranked #1 yet again in the country and #3 in the world.

Number 1 in what??

passenger enplanements?
takeoffs? departures?
airport fee revenues?
de-icing stops before take-off?
lost baggage?
employees per passenger?
shops & restaurants?

It is, IMHO, the nicest terminal in the U.S. And, without the winters, it's situated in a nice location with light congestion.

 

[flyin2low]

#1 in Pssd Off employees!

 

[oldiebutgoody]

You know what? I think that PIT is a great airport in a great location to serve the entire east coast. An airline with competent management (like U USED to have in the early-to-mid 1980's) could really make it work (it is, after all, the key to what allowed U to prosper in the first place). Instead, in a futile, self destroying move to try to weasel cost cuts this management team has elected to basically abandon PIT (or at least make everybody think they are). I witnessed the same thing in Baltimore in the early 1990's, when Seth and his team of "idiots" basically handed the airport to SWA. Great move, giving a prime airport located right between (easily within driving distance of both) two major markets to your competition. I figure that no matter what UAIR does now, that the airport folks at PIT will have a welcome mat out for another major player. What great strategic thinking on UAIR's part! From what I've seen, the posturing and negotiating in the media has cost this company FAR MORE than they could EVER hope to recoup by "sticking-it-to" the employees! Bronner needs to get back to buying golf courses and get someone that knows what they're doing to run the airline.

 

[aerosmith]

US Airways new motto:" Here at US Airways were not happy til your not happy" :down:

 

[mweiss]

I think that PIT is a great airport in a great location ... An airline with competent management (like U USED to have in the early-to-mid 1980's) could really make it work (it is, after all, the key to what allowed U to prosper in the first place).

That was twenty years ago, in the early days of deregulaton. The industry was still learning what worked and what didn't, and the competitive pressures were very different. PIT also still had a viable steel industry. Now the primary "industry" of Pittsburgh is higher education.

Pittsburgh alone is a different market. Combine that with a very different overall airline industry market and it becomes clear that the strategies implemened by USAir in the 1980s cannot work for USAirways in this decade.