Originally Posted by
star_world
No, I think you're missing the point completely. "Business practices" for the new airline barely exist yet. They have cobbled together a mixture of processes from the two merged companies and are working under those at the moment. A medium and long term strategy includes revisiting those processes after the dust has settled and look at their efficiency, areas for improvement, etc. Are you suggesting that has already happened? It certainly doesn't seem to have.
A great example is the announcement a few days ago about the revised strategy for aircraft retirement and the maintenance tweaks to improve reliability. You can't address items like that while you're in the integration process - you go with what you have, and then afterwards take a step back and look at what you want as a longer term strategy.
I think the only area where we have a different opinion is that I don't believe much of that type of decision has been made, or announced yet, whereas you're looking at the placeholder business processes and determining that you don't like what you see.
The very fact that you call it COdbaUA indicates that you've made a judgement on what you see the airline operating as, and are assuming that's what you're stuck with.
I have zero idea what you believe suggests that how things are being done re systems/policies are "place holders" no one has said that at all, certainly not anyone from UAL.
the "merger" was finalized on 10/1/10 when the boards voted to merge. Planning was well under way before that vote.
So we are now legally ONE YEAR AND 9 MONTHS into this baby...
The MP program that was announced was not some "interim" measure, its final. The systems switch over on 3/3 is not some "interim" measure, its the system.
The two subsidiaries are operating as one, with one set of policies and proceedures. As others have noted other than Union contracts the airline is one airline, with one set of polices. Hell, have you not listened to Jeff's videos?
Did you block them out?
He says it every time...
This is UA moving forward, like it or leave it. What we have now is what the current management team WANTED. No one imposed them on them. Management is certainly not say "oh sorry, mistake, this is not what we intended, some clerk changed the policies and procedures and we just figured it out."
What you are now seeing is some backtracking and adjustments. The announced changes to cross fleeting are a RESPONSE to it not working that well and a huge problem. They are not some new policy, cross fleeting as been going on for OVER A YEAR!
Hey, I know you defend PMCO, that is your right. But you can't sluff this off as a period of "interim integration."