Re: United\'s Confidential Business Plan Here
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Where do you get your information that a lot of United pilots left other majors to work at their current carrier?
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I have about 20 United pilots who deadhead to Denver on JB each week. We talk,we gossip,we trade info. It's called networking
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737_Dude, I don't think you get the idea that if 5,000 guys that are all in their 30's flood the market if United goes under we're not getting jobs.
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Tell me....if you were a HR rep hiring for an airline, would you hire some bitter UA guys. I would'nt.....well maybe if I was desperate. These guys have made a name for themselves in the industry,and it's not a good one. I'm really not worried about getting a job at a major.....the ones that I'm considering look at your attitude along with flying skill.
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The bottom line is that it would NOT be good. And while I'm ranting, how in the world can you think of undercutting other pilots like that? These are the guys here man. Do you really want to screw all of us out of the job so that you can work? Other people have kids, houses to pay for and car payments to make. No one deserves to go through what these United guys might have to go through, and not one of us should endorse the idea.
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John, It's survival of the fittest in the airline game! Nobody wants to face the facts here.....the United pilot group contributed to what we see now. Yes,UA mangement is inept but the pilots pulled one of the dumbest stunts I've ever seen....and it played out not only on the domestic scene, but international. Yes, they have children,houses to pay for,and car payments to make......but they weren't thinking about that when they were taxiing down taxiways at 2 mph....or calling MX for dirty windows...or calling in sick at the last minute. Payback is a b***h,and the UA pilots are finding that out now. You guys that are shedding tears for the United pilots really need to wake up.
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Just remember, it might be you in 20 years.
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Hopefully not......I plan at working at airlines where all the employees relize that working with mangement to assure profits is better than "squeezing the golden goose for every last egg".
I've said it before and I'll say it again:If United Airlines ceases operation,it will be a good thing for the industry. Between United and USAir,they are bleeding the rest of us dry! Tim even said it....Frontier can't raise fares because UA has it's fares at uneconomic levels just to keep money in the coffers. This cannot continue to go on.....somebody has got to go,and unfortnatly if UA can't get their act together....it will be them!