catiii From United States of America, joined Mar 2008, 2279 posts, RR: 3 Posted (1 year 1 month 15 hours ago) and read 3110 times:
Taxiing in to LGA tonight we had to wait for our gate to open up, and my side of the airplane was looking at the terminal and I was watching the newly expanded operation at terminals C and D. One question I had was whether Delta, with the additional gates that Delta assumed from USAir as part of the slot swap deal, also took USAir gate and ramp agents to staff those additional gates or if they hired externally. I would imagine there had to be a need to additional staff, no?
BDL757 From United States of America, joined Apr 2012, 128 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 1 month 13 hours ago) and read 2956 times:
DL didn't take any US staff in the slot swap. DL has had a lot of agents transfer from all over the country into LGA. They have also hired off the street with a few of those new hires being people who left US and came to DL.
FlyASAGuy2005 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 6520 posts, RR: 11 Reply 3, posted (1 year 2 weeks 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2362 times:
Indeed, when DL posted above and below wing positions on DL.com for both LGA and JFK, quite a few US Air people applied and got on because they knew they would be out of a job or TRY to transfer to another US city. I personally know of a guy that had 2 years with US @ LGA that wouldnt have had enough seniority to be a part of the ones "left" so he applied and got on. However, preference was given to base transfers which is where most of the staffing came from
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LGA777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1101 posts, RR: 22 Reply 5, posted (1 year 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1986 times:
Not all but most of the former US people that have gone or are going to Delta at LGA where actually Piedmont/US Express employees as very very few Mainline US employees in Customer Service and none in Fleet Service where affected, whereas the Entire US Express operation ceases to exist on July 11.
Also a fairly significant number of Express employees chose to stay with Piedmont and have or will be transferring to PHL/DCA and especially CLT.
A lot of Really good people have and still work for Piedmont/US Express in LGA so I am glad many either have or will be transferring with in there company or starting over with Delta as apposed to leaving the industry many of us Love.
BDL757 From United States of America, joined Apr 2012, 128 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1760 times:
Yes, a few people realized that they were unfortunately going to lose their jobs and would not be able to move so they got hired on as Ready Reserves at Delta. They are great and its good to have people who know the building!
SkyTeamTriStar From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 334 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 1362 times:
Quoting BDL757 (Reply 6): They are great and its good to have people who know the building!
Agreed, but are those folks willing to perform at the levels of Delta's expectations?
FlyASAGuy2005 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 6520 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (1 year 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1152 times:
Quoting SkyTeamTriStar (Reply 7): Agreed, but are those folks willing to perform at the levels of Delta's expectations?
It's very simple. If they're not performing as expected they're be "trained". If not then they'll be shown the door. That's just not for US Air folks but all DL agents.
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PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6874 posts, RR: 29 Reply 10, posted (1 year 2 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 943 times:
USAirways & Express always ran a top-notch operation out of LGA. There is no reason to think that they would not be a good in another US base or at DL. The faults of US at LGA were not due to their airport operations, but in their network ane revenue management.
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