4:41pm EST on FoxNewsTV....Stehphen Wolf, Chairman of US Airways, saying small flight of MD80's OK, continuing to check them. No link. Breaking news. HAH, I knew they would find someone to blame it on....flight attendants.

-- canthappen (n@ysayer.com), February 24, 2000

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This "strike or shutdown" thing has been brewing for almost a year, just like the TWA flight attendant strike a few years back. It's a nasty confrontation between labor and management that looks to have only bad outcomes. They've burned all the bridges to the other possibilities.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), February 24, 2000.

WW, you may very well be right. That may have been a useless post. It just struck me that they talked about the MD80s in the same breath. Was I overreacting? It just seemed an easier excuse if their planes are in trouble. It would shift the blame in the eyes of their stockholders wouldn't it?

-- canthappen (n@ysayer.com), February 24, 2000.

Their rationale seems reasonable...do a planned lockout rather than take a random strike. This lets their customers know exactly when they will and won't be flying... Waiting for unanounced random strikes to destroy customer confidence would be stupid.

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 24, 2000.