It's premature to write US Airways' epitaph
As a US Airways employee, I am tired of the so-called experts calling for our demise and even more tired of the local news reporting on it without being up to date on significant progress on management's effort to turn US Airways around.
Your Jan. 16 article with the sensationalized headline "Now departing" does not take into account that some key financing that needed to take place by Jan. 14 is now in place. Bankruptcy is a complicated, dynamic process. This community is so desperate to be a Jet Blue or Southwest destination. Let's look at the Triad's savior, Air Tran. They didn't make money here, so they left; maybe airfares were too low. US Airways has been there through thick and thin (remember Piedmont?). It provides the Triad with a lot of air travel options worldwide.
This community has a lot of hard-working, dedicated US Airways employees who are working hard to keep their jobs by supplying the traveling public safe and affordable transportation, while at minimum, losing their retirement, taking at least 40 percent pay cuts and working a lot more.
Kevin Prufer
Greensboro
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Must be nice to get money to pay bills. You think the government will give me about 15k to pay some of my debt.
Maybe I should file for bankrupcy protection and then ask them.
Posted on February 4, 2005 10:53 AM