The best way to improve United's position is to get new management. There is barely an employee in United that does not, literally, hate the present crowd. Here is a team that has bungled deals costing the company many millions of dollars. Yet, despite recent publicity grabbing pay cuts, they have already individually taken home millions of dollars this year while leading the company into economic problems well before Sep.11. They still plan to go ahead with an executive jet subsidiary regardless of the fact that it is these very executives who are not travelling now. By the way, present pilots and flight att. who are being layed off have virtually been told not to bother to apply for the jobs which will be created.
United is in trouble along with the other airlines. However, in relative terms, the company is in a strong position if it can develop an effective business plan that is not based on the old, tired, squeeze the emloyees to make a profit idea. The route structure is there, the efficient aircraft are there, experienced employees are there, fuel costs are down, the Gov. is willing to give financial help, United has cash reserves. It is only poor management which will prevent United rising to the top of the heap when the economy improves.
By the way 411 I have suffered your rantings against ALPA and pilots in general far too long. You are using our paychecks and working conditions as an excuse with which to make snide attacks on pilots in general at any opportunity. What are you, a failed pilot who is bitter because he could not make the grade? Did some pilots dislike your personality so much that they kept you out of the best professional group on Earth? Do you feel inferior because a twenty year old turbo-prop new hire co-pilot gets more respect than you do? Do you feel powerful sitting at your computer keyboard attacking pilots because they look on people like you as clerical help? The very fact that you have the insensitivity to continue to call pilots overpaid etc. so soon after SEPT.11th clearly demonstrates your rabid mindset and level of intelligence. Look forward to meeting you in person some day!