Thanks United! Southwest increases Love Departures

[Chest Rockwell]

Always paying our bills.....love it!

Thats a great Slogan Spirit warriors....sounds like somebody is running scared dragging out old digs! Garys gonna drag you through the same courts we did in spite of your contract demands....

NAW...that wont happen....like I said in 2000 when Delta was best compensated and SWA was still not paying pilots for getting into holding patterns

...and ended up furloughing how many?

Take a look at two pilots, one hired at DL, the other at SWA, in say 1992. Who made more in 2000, since 2000, etc?

No slogan here, just fact and common sense.

 

[canyonblue]

NAW...that wont happen....like I said in 2000 when Delta was best compensated and SWA was still not paying pilots for getting into holding patterns

Where do you get your information, The Onion? Congatulations on winning the "Stupid post of the day" award. You can collect your prize, a 7 day all expences paid trip to Peachtree City. :beer:

 

[canyonblue]

No slogan here, just fact and common sense.

That's frowned upon at Delta.

 

[Flopgut]

Free ride?

Always paying your bills, employing hundreds if not thousands of locals in each community, giving back to that community in other ways (RM houses, other charities, volunteer work), not to mention greatly stimulating and expanding air travel among ALL airlines in those communities (documented by the government)... that's your idea of a free ride?!

Good God Flop, you're so overcome with irrational hatred, that you say the stupidest things. How does your head not explode?

Bubba

I think you're the one with your undies in a bind. I'm a lucid and harmonious poster. I always am clear that I wouldn't wish the worst on SWA (or anyone) and I don't think furloughs are anything to be celebrated. You don't like hearing certain things so you lash out. Get over it.

You know a lot of folks in Houston don't even know it was a SWA launch city? You're just here to exploit a larger airport that taxpayers made a large investment in. $72m is the price tag for the parking garage you want built for your new terminal. That's initially coming out of Houston Airport System general funds. Thanks. A parking garage has to be duplicated so you can have your own private FIS. Keep these numbers in mind: 1.6 billion to Houston economy, 10,000 jobs, and $130 ticket to Bogota. You're going to have to hit those numbers, and somehow live down a cozy, enabling relationship with a very marginal mayor, in order to call this a success.

 

[FlyinGuy]

I sure am glad that Jeff Smisek is such a trustworthy chap and that he would never try to influence politicians for the betterment of his company.

 

[redflyer65]

The only serious item that Flop can come up with at Hobby is a damn parking garage. Think about that for a minute!

Hey Flop, any idea how much money the Houston Airport Authority will clear on that deal in the end? How many millions? at what $10-15/day per vehicle? I wish I could get some of that parking garage income.

Your parking garage outrage is ridiculous and makes you look like a fool.

 

[Flopgut]

Red: You're missing the point. Taxpayers are having to duplicate the expense. IAH was built to handle all the houston international traffic. It's ridiculous and it's never going to trickle down or in anyway make it back to the average taxpayer. It's bad policy. It's not part of a functional relationship. Things like this are not done in other states where FIS are duplicated. In most of those instances the facilities at the secondary airport are common use. You've managed to build the opposite!! You're set to lock everybody out (again!) into an unworkable situation (using one gate).

 

[Cometman]

Red: You're missing the point. Taxpayers are having to duplicate the expense. IAH was built to handle all the houston international traffic. It's ridiculous and it's never going to trickle down or in anyway make it back to the average taxpayer. It's bad policy. It's not part of a functional relationship. Things like this are not done in other states where FIS are duplicated. In most of those instances the facilities at the secondary airport are common use. You've managed to build the opposite!! You're set to lock everybody out (again!) into an unworkable situation (using one gate).

Get a life. I cannot believe you are an airline pilot. Don't you have anything better to do than to keep posting your stupid remarks?

 

[SWA Bubba]

Red: You're missing the point. Taxpayers are having to duplicate the expense. IAH was built to handle all the houston international traffic. It's ridiculous and it's never going to trickle down or in anyway make it back to the average taxpayer. It's bad policy. It's not part of a functional relationship. Things like this are not done in other states where FIS are duplicated. In most of those instances the facilities at the secondary airport are common use. You've managed to build the opposite!!

Actually, Flop, it's YOU that's missing the point, the bigger picture, and the difference between your anti-SWA bias and what the city of Houston actually wanted. As usual.

The city of Houston is building the parking garage as a money-making venture--it will be paid for in a few years, and then a pure cash cow for the city after that. Cities build a lot more crap than that, for a lot less in return. Why don't you get that? It's a win for the city; taxpayers are NOT losing anything here; it's cash-positive for the city.

And can you give me one other example, anywhere in the country, where consumers/citizens are harmed by having more choices in competition? I don't think so. Houstonians, especially those on the south side, LOVE having the ability to fly out of a closer, smaller, easier-to-navigate airport. And yet, YOU want to take that away from them, so that they have to drive further, and go through more hassle at IAH, and pay more, just so your airline makes the revenue. And then you have the nutsack to pretend it's somehow in their best interest?! That's rich.

You're set to lock everybody out (again!) into an unworkable situation (using one gate).

Ha! Yet another thinly-veiled implication about Love Field. You "forgot" to respond to where I pointed out that you don't know what you're talking about. For like the 50th time. You just ignore the facts, and repeat your ignorance.

HOW did Southwest "lock out" anyone at Love Field? Tell me, Flop. As I said (and you conveniently ignored), there were literally dozens of empty gates at Love, for literally decades, that NO airline wanted to use. Then American Airlines forced a 20 gate limit (essentially the gates that airlines were currently using), and now you're going to bitch about Southwest?

If anyone "locked everybody out" of Love Field, it's American Airlines, not Southwest Airlines.

But you already knew that, didn't you?

Bubba

 

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