New AAI ALPA Strategy: Fire SWA Haters!

[madjack]

For FI the SWA/AAI pilot banter here has been relatively civilized...the lanyard is for the company rah-rahs which typically does not include the pilots (unless they are super senior DAL folks). I am going to the 40th anniversary celebration in DAL this month (my 10th year at SWA)....are the AAI folks invited to what will be an incredible blow out?

 

[redflyer65]

It cuts both ways, we had some flight ops people at the ATL signing, they were told by more than a few AAI people that DOH was the only way to go...

 

[-9Capt]

It cuts both ways, we had some flight ops people at the ATL signing, they were told by more than a few AAI people that DOH was the only way to go...

Were those "AAI people" our sexy stews? They're the only ones I've ever heard mention anything about DOH.

 

[madjack]

I have heard our stews and mechs state that aai folk should enter the workgroup at the bottom just like eveyone else has done @ swa...i then try to explain m/B law and they fail to see the fairness for swa employees if the senioity list is integrated...oh well, there's no getting though to folks sometime...

 

[Ty Webb]

Heck with the lanyards, this is ATL. Who's wearing the medallions? How many? What kind of necklace?

3 swingin' on 14k here, yo!

 

[scoreboardII]

I'm sure that will give them good reason to reconsider this $14B decision. Sounds like the largest act of protest since the Vietnam war.

"...but the pilots aren't wearing the lanyards!"

You asked, I provided a simple succinct response.

Let history show that bad mergers (of employee groups) have cost lots more than any managament proposed "synergies" have ever recouped.

Thats all I'm saying, no hidden agenda.

Hoping for the best, but there's your answer.

 

[scoreboardII]

I appreciate your honesty, but it's not an idea. It's reality. It's been finalized.

In the words of Yogi Berra, "it ain't over, till it's over..."

 

[SWA/FO]

Let history show that bad mergers (of employee groups) have cost lots more than any managament proposed "synergies" have ever recouped.

History can be a great teacher: Let history show, Southwest Airlines would get rid of "troubled group". Example: TranStar/Muse. Don't become Air Tran(Star)

http://www.museair.com/

 

[Bob Dylan]

The least amount of pilots will be pissed off with a staple. Any other integration will anger a larger number. Simple math.

 

[XRMEFLYER]

Heck with the lanyards, this is ATL. Who's wearing the medallions? How many? What kind of necklace?

3 swingin' on 14k here, yo!

That's funny! Apparently some other's sense of humor has been compromised by their obsessive need to "solve" our SLI issues here on FI.

 

[Ty Webb]

The least amount of pilots will be pissed off with a staple. Any other integration will anger a larger number. Simple math.

Here's an idea . . . . Since you can't seem to get your mind around the fact that the AAI pilots will be integrated fairly, perhaps you should just quit? You'll be happier, and so will we.

You know, one is unhappier, and 6000 will be happier. It's a 'numbers game'. :laugh:

 

[Ty Webb]

History can be a great teacher: Let history show, Southwest Airlines would get rid of "troubled group". Example: TranStar/Muse. Don't become Air Tran(Star)

http://www.museair.com/

Oh, Lord, another Baghdad Bob!

Read these forums, and you'll find it ain't the AAI guys that are threatening to poop in the pool.

 

[SWA/FO]

Hostage to Fortune

Interesting.....

You should type: kicking and screaming your way to a better QOL, more pay and strong stable Company :crying:

 

[Dan Roman]

History can be a great teacher: Let history show, Southwest Airlines would get rid of "troubled group". Example: TranStar/Muse. Don't become Air Tran(Star)

http://www.museair.com/

Seems like an odd statement?? There is no legal way SWA could use the assets from the AirTran merger and not use it's employee's and they are entitled to be merged in whatever fashion the courts think is fair.

I think it's safe to say the courts would look at this as two very similar operations merging, they really won't take into account how much breast thumping or mudslinging one side or the other can do.

 

[shootr]

Unfortunately, we are a pretty big byproduct of your protest. You are protesting the AT pilots coming into SWA, so in a way it is directed at us in an indirect way. No way around it. If I'm wrong explain to me why you aren't wearing your lanyard? What message are you trying to send to management?

That is not what we are "protesting" at all. It's a signal to management to be involved in the process so as to not allow full AT gains to the detriment of current SWAPA pilots. SWA management has many ways to make the process fully fair to all involved including positive AND negative actions. They know that a hands-off approach MIGHT not go well and our actions and words to this point is what has educated them.

Again, it's not personal toward Citrus pilots. It's business between SWAPA pilots and SWA management. I hope it all goes well and we have the LEAST number of unhappy pilots posssible, in the end.

shootr