No, their expanding service with the 737 series but establishing new mini-hubs and destinations.
USAirways has been dieing long before 9/11 and long before Southwest started to show up on the East Coast. Seigal is looking for a scape goat to take the blame off him for killing the company. It seems to be a race between USAirways and United to see who will have to start major liquidation of their assets. With Seigal asking for a 3rd round of concessions from the employees I believe that USAirways will win that race.
Once a CEO needs more than 1 round of concessions/layoffs he needs to go. The pilots are flying at fractions of the cost of other airlines already and they’re still not breaking even. Obviously it’s not labor cost that’s keeping them in this position. Sadly, it’s starting to sound a lot like Eastern Airlines. After liquidating the pilot retirements and round after round of concessions and layoffs the company still went under. Looking back on it, it has been said that even if the pilots at Eastern flew for free that the company was still doomed to fail. Hopefully the USAirways pilots realize this and stop giving up their salaries. Get rid of Seigal, there’s a good start for any concessionary talks.
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