Good Luck to the Maxjet folks, I wish you all the best.

 

Just curious - what did the cowardice classless dolts in management of MAXjet do to make you so upset?

 

http://www.digitallook.com/news/rns/...11_Filing.html

 

How about shutting down on Christmas Eve without giving notice to employees?


At least Independence Air had the dignity to give employees and customers a weeks notice before shutting down, and they waited until after the holidays.

 

Whose butt do your have your nose up? Do you need a box of tissues to wipe the brown spot off your nose? If you play your cards right MAXjet will hire you... who knows... your question makes you D/O material.

 

The writing had been on the wall awhile at MaxJet, unfortunately.

Too many problems, not enough solutions.

 

Good luck to all employees, great people and good times. MAXjet was fun after 28 years at the Big D.
Besides the cost of fuel spiking, I think the choice of aircraft and the maint. issues that resulted were the biggest problem. As one of the orginal pilots, I know the FAA certification process also contributed. It cost so much and took so long. Then we had management changes every 6 months or so which didn't help.
We could get lots of people to try us but we disappointed them with canx. and late departures.

 

First off - to those of you affected by this airline shutdown, my condolences - having been through it myself with Midway, it sucks.

captjns, Wow, another thoughtful, well reasoned response...hang on, I will get my five year old to translate for me...do you think the "cowardice management" wanted to go out of business any more than the rest of the employees? Do you think that somehow there was an evil conspiracy?

Yea, it sucks huge that they went out of business on Christmas Eve. Maybe they thought they could weather the holidays, make it through to the new year? Who knows?

Crying wolf every single time something bad happens, and blaming the greedy and "cowardice" airline management for EVERY single bad thing that happens is no more valid than blaming Bush for every hurricane and tornado that happens. It makes this forum less an exercise in intelligent thought provoking debate and more about predictably blaming management for everything from the high price of fuel to turbulence.

Yes, management sucks. So do whiny pilots.

Now to bring the predictability full circle, someone, PLEASE, suggest that I am managment, drinking the Koolaid, have SJS, or have my nose up the CP's arse (whoops, that one was already used.)

 

Have your kid break out the crayons to illustrate the magitude of the situation.

By the Einstein... pilots and F/As were never consulted by management regarding decisions.

Not only the employees but family members too were affected by the sudden halt of operations. Did you know that crewmembers had family members either traveling to or from the UK on holiday at the companion pass rates. Now these innocents are stranded from home worring about how they will afford a ticket back home across the Atlantic.

Management had a duty and responsibility to their employees to make advance arrangements. Afterall... Independence had the courtesy to let their employees know they werer going to cease operations. I beleive Midway extended the same courtesy too.

Think for a second... do you think for one minute that management woke up on Sunday morning and decided to halt operations on the 24th? Ask your five year old child to draw the answer on a piece of paper.

Yeah... whiny crwemembers... come up with a more original response ace.

 

I'm a former Midway guy and there were no considerations at all...I received a call at 1153pm saying they were filing at midnight and that I would be contacted as to how to pick up my stuff...they held my flight bag hostage until I gave them my id badge...they changed all the locks over night and reissued new id's on the spot to the chosen ones that were allowed to remain with the sinking ship. Let's not forget, they did NOT lay off in seniority order, they did so by aircraft type, a very nice screwjob from ALPA and our MEC...but I digress.