New Cuts At US AirwaysBy now, most of you have seen the announced cuts at US Airways? Here are the responses being kicked about. I assert that the training float, from the wide-spread down-grading will significantly erode any potential, short-term savings. Dumbbell logic...... Our management has spent the last three weeks investigation, strategizing, and planning this??? Question #1 US Airways plans to make money in the current high fuel cost environment while expanding ASM's at Express?????? Available Seat Miles Year-Over-Year Change -------------------------------------------------------- 2Q 3Q 4Q FY08 FY09 Express +7% to +9% +9% to +11% -1% to +1% +4% to +6% +0% to +2% More seats Less often in a high fuel price environment! Not, less seats more often! Management is doing just the opposite with this plan. AB 330 & 320 or RJ's? ******************************************************************************************************* Question #2 Today they claim....$299 per pax round trip for fuel.......$150 one way............avg. pax carried on mainline flight? Domestic.... Let's use 130 pax.....B737,,AB 320...B757.... 130 pax x $150=$19,500.......... 19,500 / $4.00 per gallon..now.....=4875 gal on avg Flight.... 4875 x 6.7=32,663 lbs .......32,663 / 7000lbs per hour = avg flight ...4.66 Hours?????? Their numbers might work for about an avg. of about 78 pax per flight, and 3 hour stage link. Dumbbell math???? **************************************************************************************************************** Question #3 How much revenue are they planning to gain on selling soft drinks and juices for $2 and Buddy passes? Frontier and People's Express tried this at the end of their run....big failure. Can you say Grey Hound. They will be lucking to make half of what they are projecting on increase revenue for A La (X)art B.S. Dave and the response to this is: As usual, Dave Ciabottoni's bullshit meter is tuned up! Also, he beat me to the punch; I'm getting older and slower. My main question is this: will the USAPA Leadership and Negotiating Committee engage/compel the Management of US Airways to explain why they chose to furlough our own, rather than challenge the contracts with Mesa, for example? As you might know, some of these contracts feature a "payment per departure" scheme. US Airways actually pays Mesa's fuel bill, and guarantees them a percentage of profit, on top of it! Bravery in management means attacking the actual problem, not culling only the low hanging fruit, especially at the expense of the long term viability of our own company. I assert that the training float, from the wide-spread down-grading will significantly erode any potential, short-term savings. We are not at all sure that the Company's rationalization makes sense, nor are we confident in their numbers. This is the time when our President, with the consent of the PBR should have a meeting of the minds at Tempe. We are as guilty of a lack of visionary leadership, as is Mr. Parker and his band of merry men. Withholding any formalized contract talks, until the Contract Carrier question is answered to our satisfaction would be a bold, but sensible move. Coming out publically, would be nice, too.....where are we as a union on this, knee-jerk, monkey-see-monkey-do management ploy? Regards, Woody BigJetCity.com |
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