I assume you are referring to what ALPA allowed to happen.

 

I was referring to USAPA.

 

USAPA fought to protect its constituents in the face of a arbitration that was clearly flawed by any measure. If you don't agree with that I suppose you would have been fine had all the LUAL furloughees been tagged to the bottom of our combined list.
I was there for the merger. With 15 years of active service I was slotted in with America West new hires that had not finished indoc yet.

 

Seniority Integration is a big $hit sandwich and everybody has to take a bite

 

Road apples.

Respectfully, your lofty perch has blurred your vision of the maggots dodging baggage carts (in spite of our dandy chartreuse vests). A 747, 777, 767 Captain, especially one relatively senior in his domo, remained in essentially the same spot, give or take a few numbers. He will continue to loiter near the top of the pay scale for the rest of his career. Yet many of the FO's (particularly those on my team) had their upgrade pushed way back. That represents real money. Add the B/C fund kicker and the power of compound interest (not to mention dividends) and pretty soon you're talking real big money.

There's a big difference between taking a whiff of a $hit sandwich and having to eat it.

 

Where is Dana when you need her......?

 

I wonder how the chief story teller is going to spin the whole "getting drug off the flight kicking and screaming and new fight club cabin class".

The security folks did it, not United. I didn't see any uniformed United people dragging that sex-offending freak off the plane. if I was the story teller I would tell a story about security personnel and leave it at that.

 

American's long time CEO said after the AMR pilot sickout in the late 90's:

The traveling public has the attention span of chimps.

This too, shall pass.

 

From our buddy in New Jersey 😏

...New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unloaded on United Airlines Wednesday in the wake of the forced removal of a passenger from a Chicago flight earlier this week, slamming the airline’s attitude as “awful” and calling on the Trump administration to act.

United Airlines has apologized after David Dao was dragged off the flight by airport security Sunday when he refused to leave after being asked to make way for United employees on the full flight. Video of the incident sparked outrage, and forced United CEO Oscar Munoz to apologize and conduct a review.

But Christie told "Fox & Friends" the incident is representative of a broader culture at the airline.

“Everybody who flies commercial knows United is awful,” he said. “They know it’s awful.”

UNITED CEO: 'I DEEPLY APOLOGIZE' TO CUSTOMER DRAGGED OFF FLIGHT

Christie said it is a particular problem in his state, where 70 percent of flights at Newark International Airport are by United Airlines.

“I don’t think they’ve ever really recovered from the merger between United and Continental, and I don’t think they’ve integrated employees. I don’t think they’ve set a culture there, and you’ve got a CEO who takes off after the guy was dragged down the aisle,” he said.

Christie sent a letter Tuesday to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, saying that his state is looking into action to prevent what he called the “abusive practice” of overbooking, and requested that the administration suspend airlines' ability to overbook.

“We would ask, in the context of the president’s efforts at regulatory reform to improve the lives of our citizens, that you consider the immediate suspension of this overbooking authority until a thorough review can be done by your department,” Christie wrote.

Christie told "Fox & Friends" that until that happens, United Airlines can capitalize on the fact that people often have no choice but to fly United in places like Newark.

“They kicked those people off … to make money and they’re doing it with the permission of the federal government,” he said. “So what I’m saying to the administration is, stop them from doing it.”

The Department of Transportation and others are looking into the incident, but the White House has not signaled any regulatory changes.

"Let’s not get ahead of where that review goes," Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. "It was an unfortunate incident, clearly, when you watch the video. It is troubling to see how that was handled. ... Law enforcement is reviewing it. And I think for us to start to get in front of what should be a local matter, not necessarily needing a federal response."

On Tuesday, Munoz issued an apology after initially defending the company in a memo.

"I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard," he said in the statement. "No one should ever be mistreated this way."

 

Christie's a clown who no one really takes seriously anymore. Just get him an ice cream cone and he might shut his mouth for a few minutes.

As far as our chief story teller, I'm pretty sure she missed two chances to shine in the last month.

PR is huge, and our PR and social media management are atrocious. Oscar was probably outraged but ill advised on how to respond. No one asked Officer Mike Tyson to body slam the idiot, but we can't publicly blame the police, so their response is to have Oscar publicly criticize the pervert doctor?

We need to outsource our PR to professionals because this is getting ridiculous. People are still talking about the stupid leggings. Our social media/PR response to that was to tell everyone that we can do whatever we want. Classy!