US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - US Airways pilot reps rip 'most draconian' contract

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04288/395515.stm

Sounds like the two sides are coming together :D :D

It's going to be tough to reorganize with nobody to fly the planes! In the end, rising fuel costs will be the last dagger in the heart of US Airways. :td:

"Union representative Fred Freshwater of Pittsburgh told his members that the agreement represents "the destruction of the once-proud profession of airline pilot."

That doesn't sound good... Is Fred running for office?

Since the service reductions were announced in PIT, the press there has been in an all-out war with US Airways. The have to sell papers and get people to watch their newscasts and the local sentiment has turned away from Airways.

I'm expecting to see the headline in December, "Steelers Lose to Jaguars, US Airways Blamed". :D

Maybe that's why he met with Santorum and Specter.

Since the service reductions were announced in PIT, the press there has been in an all-out war with US Airways. The have to sell papers and get people to watch their newscasts and the local sentiment has turned away from Airways.

I'm expecting to see the headline in December, "Steelers Lose to Jaguars, US Airways Blamed". :D

To be fair: when US decided with 1 hour left in BK #1 to renege on verbal and printed promises to the ACAA and the PIT region in general to reject their PIT leases and demand that their rent on the $1 billion plus terminal built to their specification be lowered to the rent on a $200 million dollar terminal on the backs of the PA taxpayer is roughly when the local press in PIT turned on them.

PIT is not the bad guy in all of this. Suckered, but not the bad guy.

Since the service reductions were announced in PIT, the press there has been in an all-out war with US Airways. The have to sell papers and get people to watch their newscasts and the local sentiment has turned away from Airways.

I'm expecting to see the headline in December, "Steelers Lose to Jaguars, US Airways Blamed". :D

The articles that I've read in the PG regarding US Airways are not of opinion, but of fact. This article is reporting the position of the pilots union, which is critical to US's future.

I thought the use of the word "Draconian" was interesting....evidently inferring that the union feels like someone is sucking the blood out of them. :eek:

The articles that I've read in the PG regarding US Airways are not of opinion, but of fact. This article is reporting the position of the pilots union, which is critical to US's future.

I thought the use of the word "Draconian" was interesting....evidently inferring that the union feels like someone is sucking the blood out of them. :eek:


My issue with the PG is the facts they choose to report. While they may be completely accurate, the whole of the editing bias seems to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. US Airways may be headed down that path anyway, but the Pittsburgh media is giving a nice shove in that direction.

My issue with the PG is the facts they choose to report. While they may be completely accurate, the whole of the editing bias seems to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. US Airways may be headed down that path anyway, but the Pittsburgh media is giving a nice shove in that direction.

Public opinion has nothing to do with the demise of US Airways. What facts do you claim that the PG is leaving out of it's stories? Where has the PG misrepresented the situation with US Airways? Give us and example.

This is a sad tale of mismanagement and strategic planning failure. The employees, and their unions, have nothing to do with the miscalculations that US's management have made in dealing with the changing airline industry. They are caught up in the turmoil caused by the second BK filing.

So the unions are fighting for their jobs, salary and benefits...........what is wrong with that? You should walk in their shoes before chastising these hard working people who serve us every day. :mad:

Since the service reductions were announced in PIT, the press there has been in an all-out war with US Airways. The have to sell papers and get people to watch their newscasts and the local sentiment has turned away from Airways.

I'm expecting to see the headline in December, "Steelers Lose to Jaguars, US Airways Blamed". :D
The Post Gazette has never liked UsAirways. When i lived in PIT I remember the constant US bashing. There could have been a positive thing that happened and the Post Gazette was digging to find the bad thing. The one thing you learn in this industry is don't ever believe 50% what the media says, otherwise the demise of US would have happened 10 years ago.