ACL65PILOT
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SWA is going to be here in two years no matter what happens with AAI.
Now that SWA does not have a supreme hedge position, the costs on like routes will be quite similar.
Don't forget to add your pay raise. Better bases and you still have a frozen pension.
Airtran is the main course for DAL in 2010. It shouldn't take too long to finish them off.
SWA however, is a different story.
DAL and SWA will live semi-"peacefully" as no one wants to see a blood bath. The two will agree to co-exsist in the future. Stay on your side of the fence and peace will be possible....
Excellent article.....
I have been telling people this would happen since the meger was first speculated on. DAL is gone now, and this new airline (800 lb gorilla) will work hard to piss off customers and passengers alike. It is truly a shame. DAL used to be a great company.
The new DAL (NWA) still has absolutely no idea how the traveling public thinks-there is no brand loalty anymore. You piss enough people off, and they will give you a collective kick to the nuts. Many here scoffed my past assertions which were all validated by this article.
Let me be clear in what I am asserting now: DAL (NWA) will now try and destroy AirTran. If they succeed, DAL will get SWA into Atlanta faster than you can drop a hot coal. At that point, DAL (NWA) will get the living hell kicked out of it, and will soon be bankrupt again. -Doubt me again? Go ahead if you wish-Gen., but time will prove me correct again.
I think it's great how the author ended the article. General Lee better watch his pompus butt. Apparently, he doesn't understand how big a bunch of scumbags used to run NWA. That brass ring the General has been chasing will suddenly morph into brass knuckes, indeed......
-Turn the other cheek, Gen.... Steenland's got a little somthin' fo' yo' punk ass!
Pay Raise? If you are proud of that little thing Y'all call a pay raise, you should be embarrassed. Better bases? They all suck equally. Frozen Pension?, now let me talk real SSSLLLOOOWWWW so you get it, only about 20% of NWA will receive a frozen pension even worth mentioning.
I am at 13 years and will receive, sit down and get ready, a whopping 1785.00/month. Holy crap, Vegas here I come.
Don't be so frickin simple.
Now that SWA pays the same for Jet A as Airtran, Airtran actually has about a 10% total CASM advantage over SWA. I don't know why Delta would want to play games with Airtran again. We saw where that got them the first time. They are not going to out low-cost the lowest cost LCC.SWA is going to be here in two years no matter what happens with AAI.
Now that SWA does not have a supreme hedge position, the costs on like routes will be quite similar.
Now that SWA pays the same for Jet A as Airtran, Airtran actually has about a 10% total CASM advantage over SWA. I don't know why Delta would want to play games with Airtran again. We saw where that got them the first time. They are not going to out low-cost the lowest cost LCC.
Delta should focus on building the strongest international system in the world and building monopolies on some of those routes (like their new routes to Africa). That is where their strength is. Delta will have better luck putting United or USAirways out of business than Airtran. Like the article said, Delta should have put Airtran out of business in the late 1990's. It is a little too late and expensive now.
Pay Raise? If you are proud of that little thing Y'all call a pay raise, you should be embarrassed. Better bases? They all suck equally. Frozen Pension?, now let me talk real SSSLLLOOOWWWW so you get it, only about 20% of NWA will receive a frozen pension even worth mentioning.
I am at 13 years and will receive, sit down and get ready, a whopping 1785.00/month. Holy crap, Vegas here I come.
Don't be so frickin simple.
And, we are going to try to smash Airtran, but not wipe it away. We know the stakes, and the ex NWA guys have done a better job keeping the LCCs at bay. They now pretty much run the boat here (even though a Delta exec now runs NWA until SOC). Regardless, I will still do my new favorite route (Forteleza and Recife, Brazil) and ENJOY it. Bye now.
Bye Bye--General Lee