1 posted on
05/19/2005 5:05:25 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone; Aeronaut
2 posted on
05/19/2005 5:07:52 PM PDT by
cardinal4
("Next week........" Senate Majority Leader Frist)
To: Dog Gone
Bad airline + bad airline = Worse airline.
3 posted on
05/19/2005 5:07:56 PM PDT by
Pikamax
To: Dog Gone
Wonder if this means that UselessAir will fly out of SJC again.
6 posted on
05/19/2005 5:10:56 PM PDT by
martin_fierro
(™ © ® and Patent Pending)
To: Dog Gone
The airline industry is beset with fixed costs as well as inefficiencies. They can't raise ticket prices so they have to reduce costs elsewhere. Jet Blue and South West can charge low prices because they don't have an inefficient business model and they skimp on amenities.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".) 8 posted on
05/19/2005 5:13:08 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Dog Gone
The Sept 11, 2004 terrorist attacks?
15 posted on
05/19/2005 5:23:48 PM PDT by
Lesforlife
("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
To: Dog Gone
These dinosaur airlines owe so much to suppliers, associates,and pensions, that they are beyond broke yet can still squeeze them for enough scratch to pay off politicians. They are a dire threat. The military should temporarily keep them flying while the routes are auctioned off to sucessful businesses like Southwest.
To: Dog Gone
I rather like the current version of America West. I'm afraid all of those bitter US Airways people who have been bumped to the bottom of the seniority list are going to come in and screw up America West's turnaround.
17 posted on
05/19/2005 5:25:46 PM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
To: Dog Gone
The combined company, which will operate under the name US Airways, will be funded by $1.5 billion in new capital from a variety of investors,
Jeez, did some board member from Pets.com just wake up from a six-year coma? Who would throw their money down this toilet?
including aircraft maker Airbus.
OHHHHHhhhh.
To: Dog Gone
Well, as a retired employee of America West, I'm not really happy, USAirways is a typhoid mary, a crappy airline that destroyed 3 good airlines by merger (Empire, PSA, Piedmont)
Thankfully, the majority of USAirways management are going to be canned, and Doug Parker will run the new airline.
A new name should be created, as USAirways=crappy, incompetent, and loser. I flew on AWA today, my Flight Attendant was very nice and very very junior, she was optimistic, I didn't have the heart to tell her that she has a very small chance of keeping her job, but the Flight Attendants voted in their union, so tough noogies.
On the other hand, my flight bennies should be nice with Honolulu, London, Frankfurt and Paris added to free destinations for me.
48 posted on
05/19/2005 9:17:45 PM PDT by
Central Scrutiniser
(Remember when conservatives embraced the rule of law? (Do ya?))
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