Posted on 05/13/2015 11:43:05 AM PDT by rickmichaels
After more than 75 years of flying, the end is near for US Airways. American Airlines plans to shut down the venerable carrier over a 90-day stretch that could begin as soon as July, which would mean a final departure around October.
American executives designed the gradual fade-out to avoid the kind of technological glitches and massive flight delays that plagued United Airlines after it abruptly switched to Continental's computer systems in 2012.
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Considering the customer service that U.S. Airways delivers I’d call it a mercy killing.
We have more airline choices and better fares than we ever did under their heel.
5.56mm
Don’t blame them, when I google US Air pictures all I see are crashes.
Not a great few days for American forms of mass transit.
I hate AA..they can paint all the planes they will ..doesn’t matter to me.. hey what ever happened to the anti trust laws..
Thus ends the saga of the Democrat officials who built the big, shiny Pittsburgh International Airport, to be the US Airways hub that would keep generations of Pittsburgh union guys employed FOREVER n’evern’evern’ever.....
We’ll still be paying for it long after US Airways is the question to an answer on Jeopardy.
They also sold it on being a big, shiny new mall. A bunch of Saudis put an end to that about fifteen years ago.
Now you can’t get a direct flight from here to anywhere anymore. And that airport’s greatest use is as a movie set, being mostly empty and all.
I fly LAX-CLT a lot and never had any trouble with US Airways. Last time though, it was American out and USA back.
American’s current livery seems to be there old fuselage design with the USA tail.
(May parents were both American ticket agents at Idlewild when I was conceived.)
Didn't their customers object?
I remember Piedmont, they did good service back in the day.
WAAAAY back in the day...
No. That came later.
There’s a holdup in the Bronx
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem
That’s backed up to Jackson Heights
There’s a tiny FReeper Child
Being conceived at Idlewild....
Car 54, where are you?
LOL!
Well, we're trying. Like the guy above said USAir left the airport w/ about $500M in bond debt when they came out of bankruptcy about 10 or so years ago which was killer.
That's scheduled to be retired in another 5 years. In the meantime they've added a couple of smaller airlines and it looks like Southwest is going to add a lot more direct flights this year.
The airport is working hard to get more international flights as well.
While its no where near what it used to be, it looks like things are moving in a better direction. Time will tell.
Wondering where all those flight crews will be going.
“Bye bye Piedmont.”
Bye bye:
Piedmont
Alleghany
Pacific Southwest
Mohawk
America West
Lake Central
Empire Airlines
CCAir
Jetstream International
yet another business down the drain. straight out of atlas shrugged.
thx 0bama
When US Air hubbed at PIT, it still had several fortune 500 Corporate Headquarters, including Manufacturing and banks.
Now the top 5 Employers are:
UPMC Health Systems 26,700
U.S. Government 20,400
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 15,900
West Penn Allegheny Health Systems 10,200
University of Pittsburgh 10,100
All government, or Government-money dependent jobs.
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