I wonder if the extra flight will be to JFK or EWR? BA has 3 flights to EWR so it might not be out of the question.
VS should move their US HQ to New Jersey, so I can visit it easily. But still, CT isn't that far away. It's interesting how it said VS will have some employees work from home rather than work.
VS should move their US HQ to New Jersey, so I can visit it easily. But still, CT isn't that far away. It's interesting how it said VS will have some employees work from home rather than work.
Originally posted by VS-EWR
It's interesting how it said VS will have some employees work from home rather than work.
JetBlue mostly uses it for their res. There was a feature on TV a few weeks ago about it, meaning it really worked well - and meant there wasn't as much need to outsource.
Don't know if this is US discussion or appropriate to this forum so please shift if needed.
It is actually a real shame that VS are leaving Norwalk which is a struggling diverse town (I know sixth generation Norwalkian African Americans whose forebears include Yankee slaves)in need of just the sort of revenue/ culture generating VS brings. Stamford has become a high rise, outta New York business haven having lost any character 30 years ago. I suppose it's just a question of time before Norwalk follows... and becomes a mini Stamford NYC outpost. Gentrification here we come.
My son, then in med school, told me a couple of years ago about meeting and bending an arm with the head of US VS at a sports bar in Norwalk where they talked his father's (and the personable head's) Scotland and his upcoming VS flight to Capetown where he was traveling onward to work in a Wild Coast clinic. His (future)wife, who at that time worked for the local Hyatt in international bookings, flew comped VS when she traveled through Hyatt/VS mutual arrangement and grew to know all the FA's on her routes. It is that kind of town. Stamford isn't.
Still, it's a done deal I suppose, and perhaps VS will sell the building to a like-minded young company who will live in town, frequent the bars and send their children to the local schools.
Still not sure what "the current climate" is. VS is seen as the penultimate ride to London, and the only reasons (my view)more Americans don't choose it are the lousy Y seats/leg room and the add on (more than double) taxes which American carriers can beat (thank you GW).
So sorry for those VS US workers who have lost jobs due to outsourcing--which is really just another term for hiring someone else at substantially cheaper wages to do the work of benefit earning first world workers. Cost effective, yes. Socially responsible, arguable. Competitively required, sadly true, no money made from high horses.
and I promise to jump down off of mine.
cheers,
rr[ii] (actually here's another high horse--a Massachusetts teacher came up with the first smiley--never realized a cent).
It is actually a real shame that VS are leaving Norwalk which is a struggling diverse town (I know sixth generation Norwalkian African Americans whose forebears include Yankee slaves)in need of just the sort of revenue/ culture generating VS brings. Stamford has become a high rise, outta New York business haven having lost any character 30 years ago. I suppose it's just a question of time before Norwalk follows... and becomes a mini Stamford NYC outpost. Gentrification here we come.
My son, then in med school, told me a couple of years ago about meeting and bending an arm with the head of US VS at a sports bar in Norwalk where they talked his father's (and the personable head's) Scotland and his upcoming VS flight to Capetown where he was traveling onward to work in a Wild Coast clinic. His (future)wife, who at that time worked for the local Hyatt in international bookings, flew comped VS when she traveled through Hyatt/VS mutual arrangement and grew to know all the FA's on her routes. It is that kind of town. Stamford isn't.
Still, it's a done deal I suppose, and perhaps VS will sell the building to a like-minded young company who will live in town, frequent the bars and send their children to the local schools.
Still not sure what "the current climate" is. VS is seen as the penultimate ride to London, and the only reasons (my view)more Americans don't choose it are the lousy Y seats/leg room and the add on (more than double) taxes which American carriers can beat (thank you GW).
So sorry for those VS US workers who have lost jobs due to outsourcing--which is really just another term for hiring someone else at substantially cheaper wages to do the work of benefit earning first world workers. Cost effective, yes. Socially responsible, arguable. Competitively required, sadly true, no money made from high horses.
and I promise to jump down off of mine.
cheers,
rr[ii] (actually here's another high horse--a Massachusetts teacher came up with the first smiley--never realized a cent).
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