US Airways' Plan to Exit Bankruptcy Hits Snags
Mar 31, 2005, 6:52 am
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US Airways' Plan to Exit Bankruptcy Hits Snags
Mar 31, 2005, 8:20 am
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Will high fuel prices do what nothing else could, kill US?
Notice that they mention Flyertalk and the lipstick campaign in the article. tls
Mar 31, 2005, 10:30 am
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Originally Posted by ByrdluvsAWACO
It appears that the lipstick isn't making its way to upper mgmt.
Mar 31, 2005, 10:44 am
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Originally Posted by gardener
Maybe the USPS is routing their mail thru PHL, LOL
Mar 31, 2005, 11:13 am
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Originally Posted by planeluvr
Chiames also said that the airline didn't have time to worry about the customers, he had an airline to save. 
Don't make a cockroach mad. They CAN bite
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Mar 31, 2005, 1:32 pm
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"Things are never going to be the way they used to be and may not always be the way people expect they should be, because we're having to make changes," Chiames said".
He just doesn't get it. We don't expect hat they will be the way they used to be a few years ago. Sure I would like to fly the 767 to LAX and have an ice cream sundae..however, now I am just hopeing for a clean plane and a kiosk that works. I don't think that is expecting too much.
He just doesn't get it. We don't expect hat they will be the way they used to be a few years ago. Sure I would like to fly the 767 to LAX and have an ice cream sundae..however, now I am just hopeing for a clean plane and a kiosk that works. I don't think that is expecting too much.
Mar 31, 2005, 2:25 pm
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Originally Posted by mileshound
"Things are never going to be the way they used to be and may not always be the way people expect they should be, because we're having to make changes," Chiames said".
He just doesn't get it. We don't expect hat they will be the way they used to be a few years ago. Sure I would like to fly the 767 to LAX and have an ice cream sundae..however, now I am just hopeing for a clean plane and a kiosk that works. I don't think that is expecting too much.
He just doesn't get it. We don't expect hat they will be the way they used to be a few years ago. Sure I would like to fly the 767 to LAX and have an ice cream sundae..however, now I am just hopeing for a clean plane and a kiosk that works. I don't think that is expecting too much.
Instead of communicating this decision in advance and explaining it as part of cost-cutting measures, they just dump it on us (and the FA's as near as I can tell; I was flying 2/1 and that week) with a blatant lie about vendor issues. Had this decision been communicated to the flying public or at least the elites in advance (thus, the aforementioned managing of expectations), then we would not have been so insulted and outraged. Unhappy? Yes. So insulted? No. We would have been expecting (there's that word again) the change.
Tell me what I get for my dollar, and then I can make an educated choice. It's the constant changes (FC), bait and switch deals (Clubs) that are so frustrating. I don't know what to expect anymore--and that's not good.
Mar 31, 2005, 7:01 pm
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Originally Posted by longing4piedmont
Yeah he is quiet the spokesman. 