August 10,
2000
Family Awareness News
Membership Bowling Event
AWA Simulators
Consult section 4G of the contract if
you are affected. If you have already flown a PT and are required to return to complete
the V1 cut or other rudder-related maneuver because the simulator was decertified, we
expect that you will be paid 4:17 for any additional period you have to fly. If you hear
otherwise from the company, call our Grievance chairman.
Analyze This
Let me enlighten Mr. Boyd and other
memory-challenged members of the financial establishment. In April, two other analysts,
Dave Sterman and Susan D’Onofrio, praised AWA for it’s strong plans to fix its
operating problems. They said new scheduling and revenue management systems were going to
reap a $15 million boost. They said Gil Mook’s arrival was paying off with improved
on time arrivals. They said that a one percent improvement in completion rate would
increase net profit by $20 million. They said there would be 10% revenue growth and more
business travelers. They were wrong. They said a winter storm, fuel prices, and a computer
glitch caused a temporary earnings drop. They missed the point.
Two years ago, AWA received a severe
fine from the FAA for its sloppy maintenance. Last month, grim faced Feds left here again
and the news was so bad they wouldn’t make public comment. That’s a shoe now
whistling downward with a 90-day ETA. Why no comment from FAA? Ask your friendly
government officials.
I invite Mr. Boyd and other analysts to
call or drop by some time so I can give them more fun-filled facts of life at AWA. We can
see if the 3.5% cut in flights is the cure or not.
One more thing. “Employee
unrest” is not causing these problems. We’re not United Airlines; we don’t
have their contract or their situation. Our pilots and other front-line employees are some
of the hardest working, most over stressed people in the industry, and they do their
dead-level best every day. Employees are the salvation of this company, not the problem.
That’s it for this week. The next
hotline update will be on Thursday, August 17. Thanks for listening.
- Family Awareness News
- Membership Bowling Event
- AWA Simulators
- Analyze This
Merger Fund
Payments
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| Good evening, this is MEC Chairman Roger Cox with the hotline message for Thursday, August 10th. Tonight’s topics are: Look for the August issue of Family Awareness News in your home mailbox within the next week or so. The issue includes an article written by new committee chairman Tim Walters, which explains the committee’s new neighborhood leaders program. I think this issue is extremely informational, and I encourage all of our pilots and their spouses to take the time to read it. I would like to remind all of you that the Membership Committee will have a free “End of Summer Family Bowling Night” on Tuesday, August 22 at the Kyrene Bowling Lanes. It’s all for a good cause – to promote solidarity and unity in our pilot group. The address is 6625 West Chandler Blvd. Just remember, you must RSVP to Sandi at the MEC office by August 15th. You can call Sandi at 602-306-1208. Merger Fund Payments Several pilots have called the MEC office complaining of improper billing for the Merger Fund assessment. The MEC office is directing these callers to Ms. Cozann Sikes, Membership supervisor in Herndon, VA. Please call Ms. Sikes at 1-800-871-0899 ext. 4157. She will be extremely helpful in resolving any issues that you may have with regard to the Merger Fund assessment. If you are not satisfied with the information received from Ms. Sikes, please feel free to contact Captain Mike Calabrese, MEC secretary-treasurer, at the MEC office. Earlier this week, the FAA shut down two of our 737-200 simulators because the company failed to modify them to meet the rudder hard-over requirements. How long ago was it that these simulators were supposed to have been modified? The FAA finally got fed up with getting the blow-off from America West. Of course the pilot group is caught in the middle and our training is disrupted.
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