AAI Pilots Beware!!

[slaquer5]

Are you sure your a Southwest Airlines pilot?

As little as I work the answer would have to be. NO



Makes me think back to when I worked at EAL. I lived at home ,was on reserve and hardly ever flew. My dad use to always ask if i even had a job. Thanks for bringing me down memory lane.

 

[DonVerita]

I here your MEC is planning to activate your Strategic Prep and Strike Committee in response to your company's complete disregard for your new contract(a contract you wouldn't even have minus this acquisition).

I know y'all have fought long and hard for your new contract. Without this acquisition, you would still be fighting.

Strike, a word y'all have used on numerous occassions, has never been spoken in our path to our industry-leading contract. Consider this fact as you characterize this acquisition as a merger of equals.

1. You're right about one thing - we wouldn't have this contract...we'd have a much better contract because we were all set to pull the trigger to go on strike and shut this place down for however long it took...until you and your "acquisition" (merger) came along. So thanks alot for screwing up our leverage with the NMB.

2. Your contract is only "industry leading" because so many of the other Majors were forced into bankruptcy-era draconian givebacks by the company hack bankruptcy courts. Not disparaging what you have; good on ya for getting what you did...but remember how it all came to be.

3. Supposedly the word, "Strike" has never been mentioned at SWA as you claim. Maybe yes, maybe no. Not important because our fight is not your fight. So don't come on here telling AAI pilots how to deal with our Lorenzo-style Management until you've walked a day in our shoes. Maybe then you'll have a new-found appreciation for what we defend against everyday and how we and our Strategic Preperation and Strike Committee are going to go to battle against these management megalomaniacs whose word, signature, reputation, and overall being, is repulsive and toxic.

 

[FlyinGuy]

1. You're right about one thing - we wouldn't have this contract...we'd have a much better contract because we were all set to pull the trigger to go on strike and shut this place down for however long it took...until you and your "acquisition" (merger) came along. So thanks alot for screwing up our leverage with the NMB.

What were you smoking when you wrote this paragraph????

 

[Ty Webb]

So don't come on here telling AAI pilots how to deal with our Lorenzo-style Management until you've walked a day in our shoes. Maybe then you'll have a new-found appreciation for what we defend against everyday and how we and our Strategic Preperation and Strike Committee are going to go to battle against these management megalomaniacs whose word, signature, reputation, and overall being, is repulsive and toxic.

Absolutely. It would be difficult for anyone at SWA who hasn't worked here to have any idea of what we are dealing with, and to presume to tell AirTran Pilots how to deal with AirTran management . . . . well, it takes a particularly presumptuous, bombastic jackass. Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!

 

[Dash Power]

Absolutely. It would be difficult for anyone at SWA who hasn't worked here to have any idea of what we are dealing with, and to presume to tell AirTran Pilots how to deal with AirTran management . . . . well, it takes a particularly presumptuous, bombastic jackass. Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!

We don't. And thank god, and Herb Kelleher.

 

[orangebellyav8r]

please go on strike so we can make this better and easy

 

[Dan Roman]

please go on strike so we can make this better and easy

In other words you are salivating over the opportunity to cross a picket line for your own personal gain.

 

[Ty Webb]

We don't. And thank god, and Herb Kelleher.

I would agree completely. AirTran's shortcoming has been a failure to build a positive corporate culture.

 

[bladeusa]

From someone who has been on strike...
Thanks Dan.
-and thanks to everyone who contributed during that time.

 

[Ty Webb]

In other words you are salivating over the opportunity to cross a picket line for your own personal gain.

It's pretty revealing, isn't it?