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eaglefly
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Originally Posted by flybywire44
Shut the front door, and don't adopt this self-serving viewpoint!
Dragging out SLI is small minded.
United lost over 5 billion dollars in two years because of integration issues. Look at how protracted labor issues had damaged the UAL product. My girlfriend is Platinum on Delta, her two partners each held Diamond on Delta since 2009. None of them will ever fly UAL again because of UAL labor.
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If United does not get their sheet together they will revisit bankruptcy—this is very alarming!!!! newAmerican may have 10.8 billion in the bank today, but the AAL is larger than United. Make no mistake, AAL management can dork this merger up without our help.
I do not advocate delaying SLI. We do not need redundant capacity. The airline needs to be right-sized so that we can reallocate airframes for growth to pay for our 2016 raises.
USAPA and APA lack leadership. Both unions are doing an extremely poor job of managing this situation.
What's to stop Parker from right-sizing anything ?
Hopefully nothing, the point of the merger was to in part right size both operations into one. We cannot regulate businesses into profitability. No union can do this. In fact, unions generate downward pressure on businesses.
In flight training, captains are told to trust their first officers, and we trust management to not run the airline into the ground like United.
The existing operations of the airline do need to be right sized, and it will happen to a degree. However, attrition will make up for this, and we have plenty of growth opportunities in Africa and Asia.