Southwest Airlines Expands Atlanta Service With Two New Nonstop Destinations

[737 Driver]

ALpA = eventual bankruptcy

Noserider76, you do realize you guys were in BANKRUPTCY a few years ago don't you?

Can anybody name more than one ALpA carrier that hasn't been through at least one bankruptcy? I think ALpA is batting 100% on bankrupt carriers.

 

[Noserider76]

Noserider76, you do realize you guys were in BANKRUPTCY a few years ago don't you?

Sure do. What's that got to do with anything? You realize you have been around a fraction of the time most airlines were building the current air traffic infrastructure don't you? You realize you guys were signing 10 year substandard contracts while big airlines were trying to better the pay and work rules for the industry don't you?

Sorry, no ill will toward most SWA employees. Just some of the self-righteous jackasses that seem to be prevalent lately.

 

[737 Driver]

delete

 

[Tweet-a-Lishus]

Noserider, you just made my argument for me. Thank you!

 

[aircombat]

.... I am sure first move is for DAL to ask for concessions. Hold ON

ALPA would never stand for it!!!! Now if you said throw their junior pilots under the bus by relaxing scope I would say definitely.

 

[flynvixen]

DL has a habit of crushing ATL competitors

SWA DL's worst night mare.......they will back down just like the brain surgeons at United did in DEN (their words not mine) you know another one of those really great ALPA carriers.

FYI ALPA just took the mother of all beat downs at the hands of SWA and SWAPA, it was good to see an out of control union take it in the a$$ for a change......hope and change is next along with Hoffa and his union thugs that are killing our country, shut them all down......Boeing wins big in South Carolina also

I hate out of control unions

 

[igneousy2]

I'll concede that SWA coming to ATL is an annoyance to DAL.

I'll concede that DAL would prefer that SWA not operate in ATL.

That being said, ATL is ATL because of DAL and their route network. It really could have been just about anywhere in the region.

Take out DAL and what ATL really is...the part that SWA is competing for, is just another 500k large O&D market. Right between Tucson and Albuquerque

The passenger that is flying from MCO-LHR via ATL is not going to all of a sudden be fying on SWA, regardless of how funny your FA PAs are.

With that it mind, it is hard to imagine SWA CRUSHING Delta when you won't even be competing for the majority of the passengers.

The bigger CRUSHING possiblity comes from the passenger that chooses to go MCO-DAL-LAX vs MCO-ATL-LAX. But that has always been there and has nothing to do with SWA getting into ATL.

Later

 

[SLUF4]

I was never really concerned about SWA coming to ATL competing against DAL a few months ago and now i'm really not concerned at all about it. At this rate, you will self implode like USAirways

 

[nwaf16dude]

March 10, 2012; 4 SWA/AAI 737s non-stop to Vegas vs. 3 DAL 767-300's and 5 DAL 757-200s. I guess that's fights on, if that's what you're looking for.

Just remember, fare wars hurt the profit-sharing checks, but not the exec pay.

 

[GuppyWN]

I don't pick the routes.

Gup