PNCL's new CEO

kellwolf said:
Although I noticed ole' Shockey is still tooting the "unplanned absences" horn. Someone needs to either muzzle him or fire him if they want this company to get back on the rails.....
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I read that as well... I guess not flying when I am sick/fatigued/etc. is just simply not coming to work and is unprofessional... riiiiiight
 
Did anybody get a chance to tune into the conference call today?? Curious what Menke had to say about everything going on. Hopefully it was something...Phil was always so vague and clueless about everything.
 
undsioux1 said:
Did anybody get a chance to tune into the conference call today?? Curious what Menke had to say about everything going on. Hopefully it was something...Phil was always so vague and clueless about everything.
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I listened to the investor webcast and it was painful to listen to! He was obviously reading the entire thing off of a script verbatim.
 
God I'm glad someone dug this up, I was looking for it. Thanks Sherpa for starting this thing up, reminds me why I don't ever listen to CEO's or their koolaid drinking disciples.

BUT HE SIGNS HIS NAME SEAN!!!


PS. Should add Sherpa isn't the boot licker, right now I'm running across a few of them during this talk about taking a pay cut. So far it's only been one check airmen I was flying with and a couple guys up in a crew room in Minne. Anyhow, the thread reminds me why I hate irrational exuberance.
 
jynxyjoe said:
God I'm glad someone dug this up, I was looking for it. Thanks Sherpa for starting this thing up, reminds me why I don't ever listen to CEO's or their koolaid drinking disciples.

BUT HE SIGNS HIS NAME SEAN!!! With the ink of his labor's pay checks.
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;)
 
They always use line check airman to "float" ideas and gossip.

Beware of "My notes from the last line check airman meeting" because I've never seen anything come to fruition from those.... **cough** t square **cough** :)
 
Doug Taylor said:
They always use line check airman to "float" ideas and gossip.

Beware of "My notes from the last line check airman meeting" because I've never seen anything come to fruition from those.... **cough** t square **cough** :)
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I'm a fairly well known gossip here, it was obvious he was pumping me. He didn't have much to say after I said I don't care what menke says, he's a CEO and therefor a liar. You would have thought I kicked his dog. I kept it as professional as I could as he tried to stuff words in my mouth, but he finally just gave up entirely. He's not interested in what a line pilot thinks.

At some point in all of this he got into how much better this time was than last time we went into bankruptcy. The conversation went a little like this:
"You mean it's better this time around before the bankruptcy than the last time."
"No I was here last time for the bankruptcy, it was awful."
"Right, and a lot of people left and that's why most of us are here, however that happened during the bankruptcy, we are not in a bankruptcy right now."
"..."
"I'm trying to figure out if you mean it's better this time before the bankruptcy than leading up to the bankruptcy last time."
"No"
"... I'm lost"
"It's fine, turn check."
For that checkairmen, he believe's we are already in bankruptcy and things are great.
 
Man, it's like the regionals are following the major's 'psychology template' when it comes to squeezing blood out of a turnip.

Stand by for the "OMG!!! THEY WANT X%!" followed by the "Whew! The union got 'em down to Y% but if we don't approve this, it's going to be %X+Z%!!!!! Vote yes, do it! SAVE US!!!" or "I'm voting yes because I'm outta here anyway."
 
Doug Taylor said:
Man, it's like the regionals are following the major's 'psychology template' when it comes to squeezing blood out of a turnip.

Stand by for the "OMG!!! THEY WANT X%!" followed by the "Whew! The union got 'em down to Y% but if we don't approve this, it's going to be %X+Z%!!!!! Vote yes, do it! SAVE US!!!" or "I'm voting yes because I'm outta here anyway."
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Couldn't be more true. The "I'm outta here any way philosophy" has been the achillies heel to the regional as much as the "We don't need that flying, I'm in a 777 and retiring in 2 years" at mainline.
 
WalterSobchak said:
Couldn't be more true. The "I'm outta here any way philosophy" has been the achillies heel to the regional as much as the "We don't need that flying, I'm in a 777 and retiring in 2 years" at mainline.
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You little buggers make me so gosh damned proud sometimes.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Man, it's like the regionals are following the major's 'psychology template' when it comes to squeezing blood out of a turnip.

Stand by for the "OMG!!! THEY WANT X%!" followed by the "Whew! The union got 'em down to Y% but if we don't approve this, it's going to be %X+Z%!!!!! Vote yes, do it! SAVE US!!!" or "I'm voting yes because I'm outta here anyway."
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Hehe. It's always a negotiation Doug. You should see my partner beat up on the Chinese manufacturers we use. We've changed terms on our 2 year "locked-in" price structure 5 times that I can count in the last 1.5 years.
 
Trip7 said:
Hope no one bit on buying the stock back when it was $4 thinking it was a steal.....
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Actually one of my "favorite" ex roomates, who was a genius -just ask him, championed his and his fathers purchase of some pinnacle stock back a while (hopefully at its peak) on the Mesaba board. All the best you clown.
 
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