Posted on 02/14/2013 11:54:35 AM PST by re_nortex
The company employs 750 people inside the corporate headquarters, but the airline has nearly 9,000 workers who are based in Phoenix.
Depending on who you talk to, what will happen with those positions is unclear at this point.
A source who works inside the company tells CBS 5 News he expects 80 percent to 90 percent of positions at the Tempe corporate headquarters to shift to American Airlines' headquarters in Fort Worth, TX.
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Unionism, aided and abetted by Obama, has killed the once mighty American industrial base. So too will unions lead to the death of airlines unless Big Labor's extortion racket (empowered and protected by the vile Franklin Diablo Roosevelt) is brought to its knees.
I doubt AA makes enough changes to make a real difference. US Airways will see a lot of superfluous employees become chaff
Why don’t they just merge into one airline and get it all over with, who needs anti-trust laws.
As a bitter Pittsburgher, all I can say is Phoenix beware. Parker blatantly lied to us and kicked us in the teeth, and there’s no reason to believe he’ll treat you differently.
Two crappy airlines now become one crappy airline.
That's one of the positive outcomes as I see it. By combining forces, inefficiencies such as these employees (most of them featherbedding union scum) will be rightfully eliminated. By trimming such waste, the company will then have the resources to become profitable and better serve the investors who have a stake in the success of the new American Airlines.
exactly
If this airline cannot shed excess employees, shed some pay and outrageous benefits costs and then reduce costs as well as improving service. They are headed to the dustbin of history.
Instead they are merging with an airline, ordering a new fleet of aircraft etc
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has made it clear that the headquarters consolidation to Ft. Worth won't badly hurt the Phoenix area. She states:
"I got all kinds of assurances from [CEO] Mr. [Doug] Parker. I believe him, they (US Airways) have a big operation here and very few jobs are going to Texas. They're (US Airways) still going to stay here. We just basically are going to lose quote the status of losing the airline headquartered here."
“Blue Horseshoe loves Blue Star Airlines”
Just the Valentines Day news I didnt want to hear. I fly alot and US Air is about the crappiest airline around. American is just a few shades better but now I expect it to decline some taking on that fluxed up carrier US Scare.
Forget that, I found a hot stock in Pioneer Aviation.
That's a memorable quote from an utterly terrible movie, Wall Street. It was the "brainchild" of Oliver Stone, an American-hating Marxist complete with a cast of anti-business, pro-union leftists such as the vile Martin Sheen and other Hollyweird elitists: Michael Douglas and the drug-crazed hippie, Charlie Sheen.
Stone released his screed at the height of unparalleled American prosperity during the Reagan presidency. To this day, I'm convinced that it was nothing more that commie propaganda designed to appeal to those who despised the success of President Ronald Reagan, a staunch ally of free enterprise and American capitalism.
While after averaging 120+ flights per year for over 25 years, I have no love for any airline, nor will Ished a tear for any airline employee let go due to this merger, I give my fair warning to AA.
Everything that Useless (formally Agony-Airlines) touches turns to crap. Airlines that treated their passengers better, like Piedmont (at one time), once merged with US Air became the same lying POS that is the corporate strategy of US Air.
AA used to be fair and above the average but they now seem destined for the same low class operation which is the hallmark of US Air.
I remember a commie unionized flight bimbo telling me on a flight from Chicago to Dallas that because we had no other option we had no right to bitch about their poor performance.
After that I drove from Buffalo, NY to Dallas and back 4 times rather that put up with that arrogant communist unionized (insert “C” word here). I enjoyed every minute of the trips.
A good day for me is a day not on an airplane. A great day is seeing these union scum kicked to the curb.
I take a more positive viewpoint on the merger. Without a doubt, the worst airline I recall from the past quarter-century was St.Louis-based TWA.
In the amount of space available, I can't begin to enumerate the horrors of TWA ranging from lost baggage, surly stewardesses, incompetent, senile pilots (protected by seniority rules of their union bosses), late departures and so on. The best thing that ever happened to TWA was its elimination when American Airlines bought it. A lot of needless deadwood was shed when TWA was rightly euthanized. I still recall the concourses closed at Lambert (IATA: STL) when TWA was put out of its misery.
That's very well said and, as Conservatives, I'm sure that we'll agree when unionism is eradicated, the American economy will come roaring back.
The dream of a liberal-free world begins with outlawing of the anti-business, anti-American shakedown artists known as unions. I've long contended that unions are nothing more than the modern form of slavery, an invention of the commies to impose collectivism on workers who would otherwise enjoy freedom, liberty and the benefits of the marketplace. In my opinion, the full force of RICO laws ought to be applied to end the corrupt, monopolistic reign of terror stemming from unionism.
As a no-longer bitter 'Burgher (since I fled that union-controlled area around the time that Kroger supermarkets also left, also due to Big Labor thuggery), I'm curious about the current state of what I still think of as the "new aiport". From afar, I recall that it opened in the early 1990s with much fanfare and high hopes (built on the backs of taxpayer dollars).
Over time, with the loss of Allegheny USAir US Airways, it's my understanding that many of the gates have been shuttered and that dreams of world class airport have largely been shattered. I had a connecting flight through there a few year back and the airport was far from busy. Just my perception or is that reality?
I’ve never had a problem with US Air in Charlotte. Nearly every flight is non-stop and upgrades to first class for 100 bucks is common. I’m sure AA will screw it all up as they prefer to work with negative numbers
I received a free upgrade to first class with TWA once. It was sweet. Took a puddle jumper from STL to Knoxville afterwards and beer was free with about 12 folks on the plane.
No regrets here.
It sure sounds like a good time was had by all and certainly amounted to a great flight experience. But free upgrades and beer, is it any wonder that such imprudent business practices hurt the bottom line? If this type of stuff was widespread during the time that TWA was struggling, it's no surprise that American Airlines was able to buy them and kill them.
I'm not trying to detract at all from the enjoyment you had on that journey and I'd have loved it too. But it's so very representative of unionized employee behavior -- give away freebies from "the man" because they have no stake at all in the enterprise.
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