59 ordspråk av Jim Higgins
Jim Higgins
They may want to appear that they consider it, ... I am less hopeful than I was earlier this week. I heard they were making progress in some sticky areas, and apparently they hit a wall.
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They won't do $10 (per trip leg), ... That's a huge percentage jump relative to other airlines.
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This can't have done anything good for their [BA's] relationship with American, ... There may be some repairing needs to be done there.
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This can't have done anything good for their [BA's] relationship with American. There may be some repairing needs to be done there.
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This is not a negative for the industry, ... The union leadership at other carriers are going to be hard-pressed to give up anything. What this does do is help to change contracts that are pending.
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This is part the jousting that goes on with these things, ... The pilots will use every significant date to try to highlight the fact they're in disagreement with management.
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This is part the jousting that goes on with these things. The pilots will use every significant date to try to highlight the fact they're in disagreement with management.
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We are just hoping to give these people a good start. Most of these agencies are trying to make their life better, so we are trying to give them a good start on that.
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We may end this round of talks without any deals getting done. The next round of talks may be more in the nature of niche acquisitions than broad combinations.
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We understand that proposed non-labor benefits include such items as full estimated benefit of the alliance with US Airways -- items whose economic value is uncertain in amount and timing, ... Everything we see in this glimpse at a key piece of UAL's loan application suggest a low probability that they will grant approval.
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What really needs to happen is for Northwest, Delta and Continental to become two airlines. But I don't know how you get there. I don't think anyone does anything fast.
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Without those concessions, we think approval of the loan is unlikely,
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You have to remember the airlines didn't have the huge amount of over-investment that prompted growth and hiring that the telecom and technology sectors, ... My suspicion is you'll see gradual enough reduction in capacity, [but] that you're not going to see huge layoffs.
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You really can't put a railroad in play in an traditional sense. But he could be trying to prompt other changes. There are two attractive pieces of Sea-Land left. This could accelerate their interest in selling that.
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