US Airways Group Inc. (LCC) is making “great progress” toward a merger with American Airlines that would cure network failings at the AMR Corp. (AAMRQ) unit, Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker said. (www.bloomberg.com) More...
It's easy for an airline to get a bad rep, and next-to-impossible for them to repair it. Those in the airline community will whine about every esoteric detail and get far too academic about it, and those outside the airline community have limited exposure and one misunderstood sentence from a gate agent will poison their idea of an entire airline for 30 years.
I flew US in December and nearly didn't book the flight because of the rep, but all in all it was an excellent flight and I'd definitely do it again. Set aside the preconceived notions and you might surprise yourself sometimes. Every airline has good people and bad people.
Well, I passed thru CLT in March and it was running like a well oiled machine. There's not many major points they serve that someone doesn't have a choice of another carrier, and if they were as bad as they were made out to be, the Hub wouldn't have been near that busy. Parker makes some good point as far as a network,BUT, Horton is running his own show down there and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. If the judge does approve their(AA) plan and he is able to go ahead, reorganize as he wants, and emerge independent, then Parker will have a big target on his back, and that is what he is trying to avoid. If they do emerge independent you can bet that Tom Boy will come out with guns blazing, pointed at Phoenix. IMHO
We've all placed our bets in this possibility a few months back. Wayne, while we are still a ways out, time is nearing and the AWE/AAL merger looks much more promising. You said back then there was no way this would happen, that AWE wasn't fluid enough to absorb this giant cash sponge. If this plays out I'm sending you the fattest, cackling ass crow I can find. Get your fork ready.
My Inet was down or I would have answered you much earlier. Before you call FedEx, let's wait and see what the BR judge says in a few days. If he buys Horton's plan, you can send some Crown Royal, old buddy. The preacher could backslide.LOL
Well, granted it will be the board, BUT, they didn't do the BR until Horton came aboard and it's his plan, sp let's just get the ball to the end zone 1st.LOL
I don't know about $200k to start (seeing how surgeons have no such luck), but a pilot working his way up through the commuter ranks certainly shouldn't be compensated on the level of a shift leader at Taco Bell. I've known ATR pilots who struggled to make $22k their first two years. That's ridiculous. They were in debt up to their asses from flight training but until they got established with the parent company they couldn't show anything for it.
