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Here's my $0.02 to this topic:USA320Pilot said:Thus, I believe every union should listen to the transformation plan and then act accordingly. If there is not a means for management and labor to come to terms with this reality then the airline will be sold piece meal without employee transfer.
If the company can stabilize its finances, then employees will have options such as maintaining employment at US Airways and then continuing employment after the corporate transaction, which will occur.
Maybe that good. RJ's are NOT the single answer to future success, especially at the expense of CHEAPER new mainline jets (ask Airtran) and even cheaper older jets (look at NWA). Of course there is a place for them, and probably an even bigger place for the new larger jungle jets U has ordered....but its the product, not the jet that will make or break U. The future is low cost COMBINED with great service and larger jets with entertainment systems. I smell a rat...why would U want to be bringing in 60 MORE mainline jets if they are not the way to go? I do indeed think the new U RJs will be a great addition , not replacement, to the system. If the financing falls through on the RJ order, what does this do the the "non existant" plan??....oh my, the possibilities for ulitmatums just keep growing and growing. Maybe some news out of the MEC meeting today will clear things up as to the goings on in CCY.USA320Pilot said:.
By the way, I now understand that GECAS has let it be known that if S&P downgrades US Airways credit rating, they may pull the RJ financing.
Very well said Frugal Flyer....FrugalFlyerv2.0 said:Here's my $0.02 to this topic:
1) How many times does one have to listen to managements transformation plan before saying 'enough'? How many rounds of concessions does it take?
While I myself am pro-management (more anit-union), the actions of USAirways management show to me that they are certainly not the brightest light in the harbor (and heck, I'm not even an employee of USAirways and I'm saying this). The management had the perfect opportunity in chtp. 11 to put together a Plan A and Plan B, to extract more than enough concessions/work rule changes, etc. and yet they dind't.
The exucse that management didn't see the growth of the LCCs is pretty lame. Jetblue/Airtran have 100's of planes on order - you don't need much higher than a high school degree to figure out that they can't possibly operate all of them out of JFK and ATL respectively. While SW does tend to stick to 'secondary' airports, SW does fly to/from the majors hubs (ie. DTW), and moreover, alfter seeing what SW did at BWI it was only a matter of time before they attacked another U hub.
2) What benefit is there for any airline (or investor) to purchase US Airways assets from a viable company instead of waiting for a chpt. 7 filing? The only draw back is that one might have to pay a little more in a chpt. 7 auction if there is more than 1 bidder, but if there is something you really want then you will pay for it. If I'm a CEO of a competing airline I'm not going to talk to U about purchasing assets, I'm going to be thinking of a plan to hasten U's demise.