Remember When...

[a320av8r]

Airline Sector Glamour May Be Gone for Good

Remember when working for an airline was glamorous instead of draining?

David N. Siegel does. But those days won't return soon, the president and chief executive of Arlington-based US Airways told executives at a Potomac Officers Club lunch. The airline's employees have already give up $1.2 billion in pay and benefit cuts to help the airline emerge from bankruptcy last year. Now Siegel is looking for at least another 25 percent reduction.

"The harshness of it all is hard to accept,'' he said. "Especially for our veteran employees, who remember when working in the airline industry was a glamorous, well-paying profession."

 

[OldGuyinPA]

Certainly not for the folks on the 8th floor at the Crystal Palace...

 

[autofixer]

To heck with the "veteran" employees. They were more than willing to stick me on "B" scale for 5 years. That equated to about $100,000 in 1980's dollars. Now, what goes around comes around! Seagull is collecting on the "pay me now, or pay me later" plan.

What was it that was said to me about "B" scale? "You don't have to work here." Well, you don't have to work here, airline vets!

 

[ktflyhome]

Hey, autofixer, I too was on "B"scale for 5 years, it wasn't pretty and I struggled. And even after I went beyond "b" I am really no better off with all of the cuts. I have compared my w-2's over the years. It sucks. And just what do you consider "veteran" these days????? I have 11 years, that is nothing. I tinker on the brink everyday. Not really senior and not really junior. Never knowing where I am at, what my schedule will be, where I am going or when I will return. I have really never known any "Good" times since I got hired. The sad thing, that really sucks, is that I have been a very good, loyal, dedicated employee who was naive enough enough to think that I could (as well as all of us) make a difference and survive comfortably. What a big joke on all of us.

 

[aerosmith]

To heck with the "veteran" employees. They were more than willing to stick me on "B" scale for 5 years. That equated to about $100,000 in 1980's dollars. Now, what goes around comes around! Seagull is collecting on the "pay me now, or pay me later" plan.

What was it that was said to me about "B" scale? "You don't have to work here." Well, you don't have to work here, airline vets!

Just what Dave wants. To divide and conquer. :down:

 

[ErinSaoirseOBX]

Reservations employees had their wages frozen from 1990 to 2000. TEN YEARS! We lost our pension as well. Yeah...I remember.