USAIR brought American. American didn't buy USAIR. USAIR elected to keep the American name because it had more global recognition and appeal. That's the only reason USAIR took on the American name. So that wasn't surprising to me. What did surprise me was how much the way American operated was adopted by USAIR for both customers and employees.
The government shouldn't give them any assistance at all. The big 3 American, United, and Delta have raked in 250-300 billion in profit just in the 10 years, after all expenses. If they mismanaged and blew that money then that should be on them.
I worked for USAirways/American for 15 years. I can tell you they don't care 1 crap about how the employees feel or how the customer feel. There stance for the employees is you work here and we give you a check. You're free to leave at will and we're free to let you go at will, in many states. If you think you've been released unfairly then use your union. My dear friend has been one of there top fliers for years. Logging between 120,000-150,000 miles a year. I told him back in 2000 that there way of thinking is "if a customer keeps buying tickets on us. Then that makes there complaint invalid." Don't try and compare the two. A guy I worked with left and went to Delta years ago and said there approach and philosophy was totally different and that's why he left and went to Delta for a little less money. For those getting bad treatment from the employees. Their just venting to the wrong people "you". 2 of my co-workers that I personally knew killed themselves dealing with that company. Ho
As wrong as it was I don't think that ball came nearly as close as it appears. I think it may look like it was right at the airplane because of the illusion created by the angle and shot. Also that engine would have shredded that ball with no problem. I think I would be more worried if it had the potential to hit the windshield. This is another person that was created without any intelligence, and if something tragic had happened, he would have been the first to look stupid and be claiming he did not mean it.
