Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
Not again. "All UA crews good, all CO crews bad. Me no fly CO routes." I've had fine CO crews, and some bad UA crews. There's both at each. As for routes, you'll find UA crews on some ex-CO routes and vice-versa.
I have yet to experience an ex-Con crew that wasn't bad.
Originally Posted by
Slouchman
For the first time in a year, I flew legacy UAL from ID to DOH. Not one problem, orderly zone boarding both in IAD and DXB, friendly attentive cabin staff, proper and timely cockpit announcements, Channel 9 turned on, seatbelt sign attended to, Business Class food properly plated and served hot. This was my last effort before defecting to Delta after a year of abuse from EWR based x-Continental flights to and from Europe. Compared to my Caribbean flight to Antigua last week, a marked improvement. Sorry, Continental just sucks all around from surly gate agents to indifferent cabin staff. Seems x-UAL staff have just finally decided to save the airline from their own management. Props here. I'll be staying with legacy UAL flights and crew, scrupulously avoiding X-Continental routes. Nice job.
If that's your experience, why do you stay?
sUA is a shrinking entity. This company is sCO and sUA is declining while sCO is increasing. As the systems, policies, and culture become more entrenched, the professionalism that you appreciate from sUA will become harder and harder to find. If your strategy is to stay with COdbaUA and survive by picking only sUA, your life will just keep getting harder, and your route network, smaller.