700UW said:
The employees of this company have given two and one group three rounds of concessions, to a tune of 20,000 less employees and concessions totaling over $1.1 Billion a year since the end of 2001, the vendors gave another $1 billion in concessions and over a $1 billion was wiped off in debt.
Obviously you can't fathom it is not labor costs!
And to this day NOT ONE Airline has ever been saved from the wallets of the employees.
It takes leadership, vision and a REAL business plan, all of these which dave does not have.
700UW:
Before you discount this post, please understand that
I fully agree executive compensation at US (and many
other legacy carriers) is out of whack. The problem is
that Dave Siegel negotiated what he is currently receiving
and the people who negotiated with him (BOD) did not
use good judgement in the process. Dave should be paid
a base salary in the neighborhood of $200,000. Anything
else he receives, he should have to earn through measured
performance objectives. At the time Dave was hired, US
was a seriously deficient concern and in order to lure Dave
to the company, they had to give him a large portion of his
total compensation in preferred stock. That is what is showing
in the securities filings. The BOD should have placed
specific revenue and profit targets on the granting of the
stock, but they did not. Now, it is up to the lawyers and
BOD to determine his salary going forward. With Bronner
at the helm, it will be a tough sell to continue to pay Dave
without performance targets. On the other side of things,
the company needs concessions whether they are
W-2 cuts or productivity enhancements that will lower the
overall unit cost of flying a customer one mile. They
have a ballpark figure they know has to be met, but
they cannot move forward until the unions come to the
table to determine their level of participation. Everyone
on these boards fails to see that it takes cooperation
between management and the unions to form a plan that
will work and be sustainable for the long term. At the very
least, the unions need to meet with management and
determine what is needed to move forward.