Bottom line, I will be glad to stay US, or United. GIVE ME A RAISE!!! DA!m it!US Westies LOVE OUR VACATION, YES!!Thank goodness we have something to look foward to!
Yes, we work 90 hours or more because it is possible with our flexiblility on the West. With more vacation, means less time working those months and getting the 100 mark or more!! OF course at a lessor pay scale then the East. :down: SO, on months with no vacation I just bid a line with all 3 day trips, at 70 a month average, but 18 days off, pick up a 2 day, maybe change a couple of my trips, and boom I am up to 90 hours, and still 14 days off!! Good for me. Can't imagine that on RSV.
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US/UA Merger Master Thread
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N965VJ
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Priceless!
You know, now if anyone sees Shamblin in the terminal or on the plane you gotta holler “HEEEEEYYYYY, GIIIIIIIRRRRRLLL!!!â€
She’ll feel right at home, like if she was in her office.
LGA Fleet Service
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Well yes, he is a trend setter, if driving away premium passengers is a trend you want to emulate. :blink:
RowUnderDCA
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- Oct 6, 2002
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Ok, I think I can diagnose you with RADS:
Romantic Airline Disorder Syndrome.
It's not a mythic quest, or an art form, or a spiritual calling. It's an airline.
Art at ISP
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Here's a team for you: Gordon Bethune and Ed Bastian....how about that ?
Seriously, Freedom, you need to stop drinking the Kool Aid. The management team at Tempe has clearly shown their disdain for both employees AND customers, ESPECIALLY premium customers. Both Doug and Scot have PUBLICLY stated their contempt for Preferred Flyers (especially Chairmans Preferred) in town hall meetings (we have the videos to prove it), and I don't need to get into their treatment of employees-the state of labor relations at the airline speaks for itself.
We are nearly 3 years into a merger which is nowhere near complete. Unable to cut costs in a reasonable manner, this team cuts benefits for both employees and customers. They gutted the First Class cabins of aircraft, reduced pitch, and they keep penalizing those who contribute the most: front line employees and high yield customers.
And let's not even get into infrastructure--the high cost of cheap has shown its head in an unworkable reservations system and a disfunctional web site. How Joe Beery still has a job is BEYOND me.
You're right--they are trend setters--and they're winning the race to the bottom.
The potential merger of US and UA could be a good thing for all concerned, but the track record of the management team you are enamored with indicates it will be yet another disaster. They are over their heads now--what makes you think they can manage a yet MORE complex merger?
Time to wake up and smell the coffee--the Kool Aid has definitely gotten to you.
Seriously, Freedom, you need to stop drinking the Kool Aid. The management team at Tempe has clearly shown their disdain for both employees AND customers, ESPECIALLY premium customers. Both Doug and Scot have PUBLICLY stated their contempt for Preferred Flyers (especially Chairmans Preferred) in town hall meetings (we have the videos to prove it), and I don't need to get into their treatment of employees-the state of labor relations at the airline speaks for itself.
We are nearly 3 years into a merger which is nowhere near complete. Unable to cut costs in a reasonable manner, this team cuts benefits for both employees and customers. They gutted the First Class cabins of aircraft, reduced pitch, and they keep penalizing those who contribute the most: front line employees and high yield customers.
And let's not even get into infrastructure--the high cost of cheap has shown its head in an unworkable reservations system and a disfunctional web site. How Joe Beery still has a job is BEYOND me.
You're right--they are trend setters--and they're winning the race to the bottom.
The potential merger of US and UA could be a good thing for all concerned, but the track record of the management team you are enamored with indicates it will be yet another disaster. They are over their heads now--what makes you think they can manage a yet MORE complex merger?
Time to wake up and smell the coffee--the Kool Aid has definitely gotten to you.
US1YFARE
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- Mar 31, 2004
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That is hysterical...pathetic, but hysterical.
Who is R. Carpenter anyway?
I agree with VJ, everyone who sees Shambles has to say, Hay Gurl!
Travelpro72
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Can you IMAGINE Shambles at UA? The size of it and all that glassware.....she'd lose her mind. 
United is matching the US no minimum 500 mile rule. I assume this is to match benefits for the merger.
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,...Fprogramchanges
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,...Fprogramchanges
PhillyFlyGuy
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InternationalShannon
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You need to end your subscription to yesterday's news
Good video but isn't posted on here about 40 different times? Maybe I'm imagining things...oh BY THE WAY DID YOU GUYS HEAR THAT WE MIGHT MERGE WITH UNITED??? ???????
kidding.....
Coffee_Tea_Or_Me
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Good video but isn't posted on here about 40 different times? Maybe I'm imagining things...oh BY THE WAY DID YOU GUYS HEAR THAT WE MIGHT MERGE WITH UNITED??? ???????
It is on here at least forty times, Shannon. AT LEAST.
while that link is funny, I think it has been posted about 10 times under various threads here. Here are a couple of good ones with Tim Conway and harvey Korman:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QCz8he36hsk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XvasXb3sdxU
cactusflyer
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Tick, tock, tick tock. Can we start making "bets" as to when an announcement will be forthcoming? Enough with all the speculation of IF we are going to merge, lets start speculating about WHEN the geniuses in the Sandcastle will make their move.
FlightChic
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US Westies LOVE OUR VACATION, YES!!
Yes, we work 90 hours or more because it is possible with our flexiblility on the West. With more vacation, means less time working those months and getting the 100 mark or more!! OF course at a lessor pay scale then the East. :down: SO, on months with no vacation I just bid a line with all 3 day trips, at 70 a month average, but 18 days off, pick up a 2 day, maybe change a couple of my trips, and boom I am up to 90 hours, and still 14 days off!! Good for me. Can't imagine that on RSV.
We would love your vacation too! You better enjoy it while you have it because MF said we probably won't get it. BTW, what's your seniority because if our new contract is how MF has explained it so far, many of our friends out West will be reserves. Unfortunately that's how things work back East. I plan on quitting this place sooner rather than later but if I didn't quit I would probably be a reserve forever. I've been here 8 years and any new hire at any other airline with 5 minutes of seniority has more seniority than I do. It sucks! :down:
I hope we do merge with United and that we have new management and that we have a rotating reserve with 4 hour call out and mix domestic and transatlantic flights. Imgaine the horror of our senior mamma's who look down at the rest of us in disgust and snidely say "I only work transatlantic to Rome." Of course, how will they tote all 6 of their bags all the way across the world to all those airplanes and to all of those different hotels? :shothe Unitck:
As long as our mgmt doesn't take over UA/US merger would be a good thing. If they do, then you better be prepared to fight.
FlightChic
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Can you IMAGINE Shambles at UA? The size of it and all that glassware.....she'd lose her mind.
Where in the world will they ever store all that glassware?
United is a big airline you know.- Status
