Originally Posted by
Mitch Rapp05
Ha! More proof of your alternate reality! LUAL was considered the lowest of the low! EVERY single pax that I've spoken to since the merger - EVERY ONE - laments the day of the merger and wishes that Continental never merged with the anchor of UAL. Pre-merger, UAL pilots were literally begging to join with CAL. Not once did I ever hear a pax or employee hope that we merged with UAL. The common belief was UAL would soon liquidate and then all the legacies would pick up the pieces. (Of course, I'm expecting you to deny any of this since all that seems to count in many LUAL pilots' eyes, particularly your merger committee and former employee mR. Eichen, is the ONE year that you all actually made a profit in the last TEN plus!)
You are either flame baiting or completely delusional...
There is no sense responding to a delusional post with a delusional response. LUAL liquidating?? You should really go review the financials in 2010 pre merger.
No offense, but I've never seen anything like the operation we've been running over the past year. Everything is a total nightmare. I'm well aware of LUAL's issues, our past, struggles with passenger satisfaction etc. The trend, however, was moving upward from a VERY low bottom. Tilton wanted a merger and managed as such. The employees were along for the ride. The choice was CAL or USAirways. CAL seemed the better choice, though I think 100% of us would have preferred to work for a management that wanted to RUN an airline and grow independently. I GUARANTEE you the 1998 hires who are now below your 2006 hires would have preferred it. So you were the better of the two choices we were faced with. I wouldn't get so excited about that.
On the CAL side your systems, managers and leaders are now controlling the airline. I'm not sure if they don't work because they can't handle the addition of so many employees, or if the merger is exposing how poor they are, but clearly it's not working. And it's not just the pilots. The CAL team is choosing to divide and conquer the flight attendants STILL with no end in sight. The better path is on display at Delta every day but Jeff doesn't want to see it. In the meantime I still find pay errors every month, can't figure out this horrendous PBS, and can't tell how long my sit is between flights without doing the math rather than just looking at the number.
I'm exaggerating to make my point. LCAL was not the pinnacle of a auto you pretend it was. LUAL was by no means going away. I hope you realize that and were just responding to hopesales typical flame bait. If you notice, many of us LUAL's have called him out for his ridiculous posts. Don't sink to that level.