Hi guys. I worked for US in ALB for 32 years. The suits and the pilots think that the whole airline business is carried on thier backs. It takes all the people doing thier jobs to get those big jets off the ground and to make money. The people on the ground get all the grief and very low pay compaired to the top suits and pilots. We are givin much responsability and work our tails off in all kinds of weather; through bad tempered passengers and on all holidays to make things go more smoothly. Our pay at one time wasn`t bad,but in todays world, we have to work harder and many times very short handed. The pay isn`t keeping up with expenses. In fact cuts are coming. People that want to fly by lower than bus fares should be shown the bus and leave the airline people to doing a good job and not take the blame for airline loses. Its the giving of the product away that is hurting the industry. It should not be thought of as a mass transportation system without the correct fares to pay for all that is needed. We just want part of the pie not the crumbs. Go back to the day when flying on an airline was a great thing. This is the reason the biz jet will be taking more and more of the real paying passengers away. They don`t like cattle car airliners and thier high fares subsidizing the lower cost flying public. This is what happened to Metrojet which was a failure from its first flight. People don`t want to pay the true cost.
[ 30 October 2001: Message edited by: berry0933 ]