Most important aspect of the merger: What will the new airline's call-sign be?
May 21, 2005, 7:47 pm
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Most important aspect of the merger: What will the new airline's call-sign be?
Will it be the oh-so-boring "USAirways"?
Or the easier-over-the-tounge-and-more-imaginative "Cactus"?
Or the easier-over-the-tounge-and-more-imaginative "Cactus"?
May 22, 2005, 4:46 am
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Originally Posted by HeHateY
Will it be the oh-so-boring "USAirways"?
Or the easier-over-the-tounge-and-more-imaginative "Cactus"?
Or the easier-over-the-tounge-and-more-imaginative "Cactus"?
Although I have a suspicion they'll use the US callsign, I'm all for something more creative or keeping Cactus. Just because there are plenty of cacti on a route like PHL-PWM.
May 22, 2005, 10:36 am
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Originally Posted by phlwookie
Minor point, but the US callsign is still "USAir" without the "ways".
Although I have a suspicion they'll use the US callsign, I'm all for
something more creative or keeping Cactus. Just because there
are plenty of cacti on a route like PHL-PWM.
Although I have a suspicion they'll use the US callsign, I'm all for
something more creative or keeping Cactus. Just because there
are plenty of cacti on a route like PHL-PWM.
(And with the merger with AC:
"Air US America Canada"?)
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May 22, 2005, 12:33 pm
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Originally Posted by longing4piedmont
If any of the US management team manage to stick around, may I suggest "suey, suey, suey" 
May 22, 2005, 4:12 pm
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Originally Posted by JRF
The problem will be if any of the US management team sticks around, someone will have to buy the new merged company after they go broke again. All US management must go. Look what they did to PI, I can never forgive them. What comes around should go around.
JFR,
That management team that you speak of for the most part is long gone...but these guys are not much better. One of the worhty ones is Deborah Thompson. She is former PI on the US management team.
May 22, 2005, 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by US AIRWAYS FAN
JFR,
That management team that you speak of for the most part is long gone...but these guys are not much better. One of the worhty ones is Deborah Thompson. She is former PI on the US management team.
That management team that you speak of for the most part is long gone...but these guys are not much better. One of the worhty ones is Deborah Thompson. She is former PI on the US management team.
I wonder if WN has secretly hired some US people as they are begining their self destruct "we hate the customer" mode?
May 22, 2005, 6:01 pm
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Originally Posted by ByrdluvsAWACO
Since when do call signs have anything to do with certificates.
May 23, 2005, 3:14 pm
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Yes, but....
Originally Posted by T/BE20/G
The two are linked... the certificate is assigned a callsign. This is why you will never hear MidAtlantic on the radio... because they operate under the USAirways certificate, they share the USAir callsign.
America West can just as easily request that the call sign "cactus" be assigned to the US certificate.
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May 24, 2005, 12:51 am
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Originally Posted by ByrdluvsAWACO
Yes they are linked, but not as tight as you're implying. The original HP(Hawaiian Pacific) certificate didn't have the callsign 'cactus'. That change was done way after America West began flying.
America West can just as easily request that the call sign "cactus" be assigned to the US certificate.
America West can just as easily request that the call sign "cactus" be assigned to the US certificate.
May 24, 2005, 6:11 am
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If they don't fire most of the US management team, they might as well change the call sign to "PITT-BULL" becuase US will just come back to destroy America West as they have done every other airlines they have had anything to do with.... I still can't believe they are going to call the new airlines US... such a great oppertunity to start over from scratch.... yet another bandaid.