SFO777

And the problem with that is... what?

OMG, how barbaric to provide their employees with free medical care and free housing.

So the ME3 FAs are better trained and receive 6 months of paid training? Simply horrible.

fly18725

It appears I should have used the sarcasm smiley in my post to make clear I have no problem with how the ME3 treat their employees.

In all seriousness, the ME3 have some employment requirements, primarily appearance related, that might run into problems in the US. Overall, flight and cabin crew members are not poorly treated. They actually get more benefits and much better schedules than their US counterparts. Cabin crew positions are not structured to be careers, which certainly runs afoul with the sensibilities of US unions...

SFO777

LOL. My bad.

pbarnette

Because it is factually incorrect. Not sure where your confusion lies.

And the ME3 "can't" fly to dozens of airports in the Americas that DL does. Is QR not global because they don't serve San Francisco? Is EK regional because they don't serve Marrakech? Your point, again? Have you ever been to Marrakech? Or Kiev (which none of the ME3 serve)? Or even Budapest or Vienna? There is a big difference between "can't" and "doesn't find the market worth serving".

Your statement is incorrect. That isn't opinion, but fact. I'm sorry you are wrong, but all I can do is the neighborly thing and politely inform you of your error. If, despite my generous and kind instruction, you want to repeat the error and resulting embarrassment, I can't help that.

fly747first

DL is a big whiner... they just don't like competition.

Years ago when B6 tried to serve ATL, DL put 767s on the route to crush B6 just for the sake of forcing them out.

In many ways, US airlines are just as subsidized as the ME3 when you take into account all the unfair advantages they are permitted to have, while generally in the US airline service and frequent flyer benefits continue to get worse and worse every year.

kop84

Everyone says to DL/UA/AA just improve your product, but the ME3's product is better due to the subsidies and basically no labor laws protecting people from being fired for the horrible decision of getting pregnant.

SFO777

If you say so.
But you may want to stay away from the Kool-Aid.

cmd320

So you're saying AA/DL/UA are unable to spend some cash out of the billions of dollars they're currently making each year to attempt some competitive premium products? I don't buy it.

SJC ORD LDR

IIRC, DL training is paid.

fly18725

I assume you don't buy consumer products from China or clothes from Bangladesh, etc, because the labor laws in those countries are different than the labor laws in the United States.

Keith2004

Double standard 101

rossmacd

The hypocrisy of this video is hilarious.

5khours

2MM flyer on DL, but left after the merger. Have been spending $100k annually mostly on *A for the last 5 years or so, but with the just announced UA mileage devaluation thought I might come back to DL so I decided to check out the DL website (after a long hiatus) and saw this thread. Boy do I hate whiners. Guess I'll stick with UA.

fly747first

As opposed to AA/DL/UA's highly protected employees who abuse passengers.

Oh and at least the ME3 give their cabin crews pretty decent apartments for free.

itsaboutthejourney

Exactly. I wish pbarnette would post something positive or non-arrogant at some point. If he/she has such disdain for FT/FT'ers why continue to post here?