Airtran Pilots

[Scope out RJ's]

You have not posted anything resembling a logical response to my challenge, so no, we haven't "been over this."

Until you do, your attempts to defame SWA pilots as PFT do nothing except expose your jealousy and underline your hypocrisy.

(BTW...Your ill wishes to my career speak volumes to your character)

So: let's see the line item accounting of what you've paid towards your career. If you need reminding, I can repost mine. If you've spent less than me, you can keep your anti-SWA propaganda going; if not, you need to gracefully retreat.

We're all waiting...

So time isn't the only thing you have on your hands then?:blush:
Oh yeah, I'm jealous. The typical southwest pft cocky attitude.
We've been over this one sport. You had to pay for your type rating junior. My company paid for all of mine.
I'm sure you believe you no longer live at home with your parents, even though you really just moved downstairs to the basement.
It really is quite simple, even for someone with limited intelligence such as yourself.
And as far as ill wishes to your career.......:laugh: Relax, you're really not that important. Your cockiness is about to get a serious dose of reallity after your SLI with the Air Tran pilots.

 

[tankerhead]

Yours is capitalized? Dang, mine is only lower-case.

 

[Ty Webb]

You say so much, but know so little.

I know ... There's nothing factual there to respond to, it's all just wishful thinking.

 

[Candide]

Scope Out RJs,

I would like to remind you: I paid absolutely nothing for my B737 type rating.

I got my type rating by driving to the FSDO with my NATOPS jacket and log book. The examiner perused the documents, noted my 737 PIC time and NATOPS checks, and gave me the rating.

The entire message in your increasingly schizophrenic rantings against me is my "purchase" of a type rating, and I've made it clear that this is completely false.

So you need to accept my challenge:
Provide a detailed list of every expenditure you've made for your airline career. If you've spent more than me (which is almost certainly the case), then do us all a favor: show a modicum of self awareness and quit with your SWA Pft nonsense.

 

[Candide]

Scope Out RJ's:

You have no moral authority to talk about SWA pilots "buying our jobs" until you compare your career expenditures to mine. Until you can demonstrate that you've spent less than me, a SWA pilot, your line of venom will continue to drip with hypocrisy.

 

[clr4theapch]

Just a note.. since I had to delete the posts for a couple of members, the posts from "candide" SEEM TO be causing problems and make him look like a touble maker.. his posts were in reply to the posts I deleted.. so please keep that in mind if you decide to respond further on this thread..

thanks clr4 mod

Ps, And no I will not replay the content of the deleted posts.. one can only imagine , that is all..

 

[Ty Webb]

The following interview with Gary Kelly in Business Traveler News should be of interest to Lonestar and the other members of the "Flat Earth Society" who keep asking "What does AirTran bring?" and fantasize about a separate 717 operation. Here is an excerpt:

BTN: You said you see a few dozen cities where you can expand. Is that independent of AirTran?


Kelly: I think it is, in the sense that after almost 40 years we served just 72 cities. With or without AirTran, we have all these additional cities that we'd consider. The point is that AirTran improves the prospects of adding those new cities faster and more profitably. If you think about Atlanta as an example, they've already got that business up and running for us at 200 flights a day. I'm not sure, absent the AirTran deal, when we might add Atlanta—and it could be never.

The other thing that AirTran does is that we've got the [Boeing] 737-700 sweet spot in our fleet. We're going to augment that with a bigger airplane, and we're also going to augment that with a smaller airplane for the sole purpose of serving smaller communities with less frequency. That is a market that we had been unable to crack, if for no other reason than we felt like we didn't have the right airplane for it, and it's really tough to take that first step. It takes a lot of effort to bring a new aircraft type onto the property. By definition, you're only going to have a handful of airplanes, and in the beginning it only provides some incremental contribution at best. Here, we're stepping into a business: They've got it up and running, they've got 86 airplanes, and they've already plowed that ground. We can take what they've got, put the Southwest brand on it, plug it into our much larger network, then grow it from there. AirTran does a number of different things for us and that's why we think it's such a compelling opportunity.

 

[Dash Power]

The following interview with Gary Kelly in Business Traveler News should be of interest to Lonestar and the other members of the "Flat Earth Society" who keep asking "What does AirTran bring?" and fantasize about a separate 717 operation. Here is an excerpt:

BTN: You said you see a few dozen cities where you can expand. Is that independent of AirTran?


Kelly: I think it is, in the sense that after almost 40 years we served just 72 cities. With or without AirTran, we have all these additional cities that we'd consider. The point is that AirTran improves the prospects of adding those new cities faster and more profitably. If you think about Atlanta as an example, they've already got that business up and running for us at 200 flights a day. I'm not sure, absent the AirTran deal, when we might add Atlanta—and it could be never.

The other thing that AirTran does is that we've got the [Boeing] 737-700 sweet spot in our fleet. We're going to augment that with a bigger airplane, and we're also going to augment that with a smaller airplane for the sole purpose of serving smaller communities with less frequency. That is a market that we had been unable to crack, if for no other reason than we felt like we didn't have the right airplane for it, and it's really tough to take that first step. It takes a lot of effort to bring a new aircraft type onto the property. By definition, you're only going to have a handful of airplanes, and in the beginning it only provides some incremental contribution at best. Here, we're stepping into a business: They've got it up and running, they've got 86 airplanes, and they've already plowed that ground. We can take what they've got, put the Southwest brand on it, plug it into our much larger network, then grow it from there. AirTran does a number of different things for us and that's why we think it's such a compelling opportunity.

Simply earth shattering.

SWA is only spending 300mil on this ACQUISITION. To bring it down to your level of understanding, it is only a "compelling opportunity".

Soon SWA will be a tremendous boost in your career. And you have the balls to come on here and consistently antagonize the ones handing you this golden ticket? I continue to contemplate how big of an idiot does this type of thing.

 

[ATLplt]

Soon SWA will be a tremendous boost in your career. And you have the balls to come on here and consistently antagonize the ones handing you this golden ticket? I continue to contemplate how big of an idiot does this type of thing.

Funny, I didn't see him antagonizing GK... (Seeing as how he's the only one responsible for handing out anything.)

 

[funnyman12]

How is Ty posting this antagonizing anyone. What is wrong with Airtran guys justifying that Airtran does have something to bring SWA. am I happy that SWA has decided to acquire and merge us? Heck yeah.....btw per SWA SEC filings the word merge is also used. Acquired, though, is used a vast majority of the time. I understand SW pilots concerns, but pilots are all the same. Other than some of the arrogant comments by some on here, if I was at SW now I would be in agreement with many of the SW guys. To the contrary, most of the SW guys if they were at Airtran would be in agreement with the AAI guys. We are all pilots and I think that once the dust settles this will ba a great company with improved career expectations for all.