Originally Posted by LJ Driver;[url=tel:3431535
3431535[/url]]Not at United.
I take the view that when United Airlines does well, WE do well. When we have record revenue, hopefully we will get a decent contract. When we have decent profits, we get a nice bonus in profit sharing. When our customers are happy, and want to fly on our planes and pay our salaries, that’s good for all of us.
Conversely, when the airline fails, all of us suffer. I don’t understand the attitude of “F it, not my job, let this ***** crash and burn because it isn’t my problem”. It is our problem, like it or not to the customer we are the leadership face of United.
It boggles my mind that Newark can fail so badly everyday during every summer season and absolutely nothing has changed? Who is ok with that? Pilots are born and bred to solve problems, this isn’t impossible to figure out. Not to mention that fixing Newark would save the company many more millions of $ then probably any other cost cutting measure within our control.
the issue is with the FAA and slot control. When EWR was going through construction the last 2 years the FAA asked everyone to pull down their schedule equally to help. United dumped a huge amount of flights whil JetBlue turned around and used it as a competitive advantage and exploded turning EWR into a mini hub. United complained and the FAA did nothing about it. So now we have the recovery and we put back our pre COVID and EWR construction schedule and the airport falls apart.
Now you want to cut flights to make it operate better but all that is going to happen is JetBlue will plug more in and nothing gets better. EWR needs to be slot controlled but the FAA won’t do it.
so do you think we should continue to give up market share in EWR?