US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - "CALIFORNIA'S NUMBER ONE AIRLINE!"

This was the advertisement on a 1980's-era US AIR coffee mug (not from a plane, but the kind you give to agents, etc). I saw it at the home of a friend who's been around there awhile. US Air WAS the #1 carrier in California. Now, you can't get from LAX to SFO or SAN without flying back to the East. And as is true about so many things that US once held, they let it slip away.


I've been thinking about the restructuring proposed by Mr. Siegel. It gave me pause to think about the legions of buffoons who have "managed" this airline previously, and the unbelievable former truths about Allegheny, US Air, US Airways, Piedmont, PSA, etc; what there ONCE WAS here, and where it is left today. I can only hope that the present management will do right by the thousands of employees who have built loyalty among many dedicated customers.

I'm going back LONG before Wolfie, too. I know, he built Envoy and the Europe routes, and the Airbus fleet, and renamed the airline. But he did it so he could SELL it; and not to build a better airline. But more than him, it's been years of bad management that bought and ripped apart PSA and Piedmont, and then didn't hold onto so much of what they bought! At least they kept the people.

Good luck, Mr. Siegel.

Just like James Dean, Jimmi Hendricks, Janis Joplin or any other famous person who died in their prime, Piedmont, PSA and Allegheny have been immortilized in the eyes of many. I think if Piedmont, PSA or Allegheny were still around today, they would be about as attractive today as a bloated James Dean (anyone seen Marlon Brando lately?) or a strung-out 230lb. Jimmi Hendricks playing Are you Experienced? to a half-filled high school auditorium in Deluth, MN.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by geo1004:
....they would be about as attractive today as a bloated James Dean (anyone seen Marlon Brando lately?) or a strung-out 230lb. Jimmi Hendricks playing Are you Experienced? to a half-filled high school auditorium in Deluth, MN.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by geo1004:
Just like James Dean, Jimmi Hendricks, Janis Joplin or any other famous person who died in their prime, Piedmont, PSA and Allegheny have been immortilized in the eyes of many. I think if Piedmont, PSA or Allegheny were still around today, they would be about as attractive today as a bloated James Dean (anyone seen Marlon Brando lately?) or a strung-out 230lb. Jimmi Hendricks playing Are you Experienced? to a half-filled high school auditorium in Deluth, MN.</font>

Lay off the magic mushrooms geo1004! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif I do agree that everyone views those carriers through rose-colored glasses. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of history...

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pitflyer:
Lay off the magic mushrooms geo1004! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font>


.... and the one's that mother gives you,
don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice!
When she's ten feet tall!!!


Ok. Enough of that. I'm going back to the US Airways forum where I belong... oh, wait, um... er...

geo:

We welcome you back from Community and to our nice smaller community.

Anyway, I am enjoying seeing again, or for the first time, Steely Dan, Journey, Santana, Peter Frampton. Still think the Who put on the best show I have seen. Still looking to see if I can catch the Blue Oyster Cult at a local bar here. Maybe I'll see Ozzie this summer.

BTW, still have Piedmont stuff.

Hey biggs, you wanna know the scary thing?

I'm moving to NC and will be flying out of RDU! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tongue.gif

Ha Ha Ha!

See you at Walnut Creek, eh? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif