Originally Posted by
rotorhead1026
Now admittedly it's a different management from when I was working (PHX versus PIT), but the decision methodology seems to be the same. Often over the course of my time there something would happen that was incomprehensible. My thoughts usually were that I didn't have the big picture and that I was missing something. I wasn't - the decision was just stupid. It's
entirely possible that "one hand isn't talking to the other". I (and many others here) could go on literally forever. I'm just glad I'm gone.
Titanic metaphor - no, I didn't don women's clothing and sneak onto a lifeboat. I retired VERY early!
There could be a good reason for this disparity, but obviously I doubt it.
From what I vaguely recall ... AWA management wanted to serve the Hawaiin Islands from PHX / LAS for YEARS ! But low and behold, the Airbus was not capable.
FINALLY someone figured out that their fleet of B757s could be taken off the PHX-TUS-PHX-LAX-PHX-LAS-PHX non-stops and converted to ETOPS birds for the Hawaii flights.
But it was a revelation that they had such a capable a/c in their inventory already ... FWIW
What am I trying to say ? The names and faces have changed, but don't expect to be impressed by the PHX decisions.
Later