Robert Cassidy

Slimfast Diet, Airlines Version

Airfare should be adjusted/surcharged according to the total weight of the passenger and baggage .If the fat on the asses of so many Americans were crude petroleum, the USA would be an oil exporting country !

Airline Deregulation: Now Do It for Real

THe American traveling public has been living in a dream world of flying for far less than cost....Now..the party is over !

Airline Deregulation: Now Do It for Real

Deregulation , the vote buying darling of populist politicians has created a consumers' anarchy .
The Airline industry of the USA has been reduced to an economic shambles- with billions of dollars lost to investors , tens of thousands of jobs lost , service and maintenance debased , while transporting mostly human trash for less than bus fare .
There will either be re-regulation, the emergence of an airline monopoly ...or total collapse of the industry.
Neither the banks nor the employees can be expected to subsidize dirt cheap air travel for millions of bozos who belong the Greyhound bus The traveling public is soon facing a reality check.
The irresponsible political jackasses will not be impacted ..They will continue to joyride around in private jets at taxpayer expense.

DAL/NWA: Proposed Merger So Large, Yet It's Worth Less Than Yahoo

An industry such as Google is not comparable to a sector so fuel and labor intensive as an airline company . .Only if evolving circumstances provide the airlines sufficient pricing power to sustainably meet escalating costs can there be any normalization of market value .
[e-mail]

Status Report: Delta - Northwest

Lest there be any doubt ...This merger will be completed ....with or without the concurrence of the pilots .....The NWA pilots will find themselves effectively on a quasi " B scale " status until the seniority is integrated either by mutual negotiation or imposed arbitration ....a temporary but signifigant irritant
Everyone ...investors as well as employees ...have a great deal at stake ..The whole airline industry , along with rest of the economy is on very thin ice....
If pilot conflict were to lead towards another bankruptcy, the pilots would have more to worry over than their precise seniority .
I remain confident that common sense will prevail ...The seniority issue will be resolved .....to the dissatisfaction of nearly every pilot-
but with a future of greater prosperity and security for nearly all
I say nearly ... because some cutbacks may be inevitable .
Even the intrepid CEO Richard Anderson has no control over the global economy
I have worked for three airlines (Eastern ,Panam and Delta)..
All of them went bankrupt ..but DELTA bounced back like the phoenix from the ashes....
The NWA - DAL team will be a dynamic global giant !
[e-mail]

Will Delta Agree to Northwest's Offer Without Pilot Consent?

Some excellent points have been displayed ...The bankers and creditors demand that a fully globalized airline be formed from DAL and NWA components ...If the pilots can't reach a rational agreement...The combo will be done by some other means ...eg a sale/ transfer of the additional PAC routes to Delta...or a massive furlough prior to a conventional merger (DC-9s...retired...150... pilots - gone ...etc.)
The only question is precisely what will happen - and how soon....With a $ billion infusion being dangled by KLM/AF...the financiers will not accept "no' for an answer
The ALPA should cooperate quickly and reasonably , lest the pilots take a severe hammering ...The Industry is in a state of siege
There is very little latitude for union power posturing