Originally Posted by
hvydriver
While I appreciate your admiration, I think that what actually killed it is simple. It is too complicated a deal for either side to be comfortable with from a contractual perspective. Further, once DPWN came out with their statements at the May 28 conference call that they were doing a deal with UPS and "there is no other alternative", US companies as we all saw immediately began going to both UPS and FedEx in droves. No surprise there. Why go with DHL when UPS is really doing all the work? If I were a customer, I'd ditch them too. The market has spoken.
Nah, I think it was all the pressure you guys and ALPA put on the politicos that killed the deal or at least delayed it for so long that DHL had no choice but to close down the US operation.
Don't sell yourselves so short.
It's a crappy situation for you guys to be in. I personally think you should have tried to get hired by UPS instead of burning down the house. At least one airline would have been hiring when ASTAR pilots started looking for work.
Now UPS doesn't need 35 airplanes, and by all accounts ASTAR pilots will be looking for work anyway.
At least you showed your big stones.