Gary Kelly Ain't Waitin' for the DOJ!!

[get2flyin]

This really is turning into the newest iteration of AWA/USAir merger. It really is too bad.

 

[bladeusa]

I disagree.. you are giving a few people here (many who work for neither airline and just stirring the pot) too much credit. Despite what a few anonymous posters on flight info may try to convince you. If SWA's culture is all thats it talked up to be.. things are going to be just fine, no matter the outcome.

 

[DonVerita]

You and me both dude. I'd give anything to get stapled to Southwest Airlines if I were sitting anywhere on the Trannie list. Basically going from a second or third tier airline with a bottom feeder contract to the best, most stable and highest paying airline in America. YGBFSM. Talk about LUCK!!!

I guess the senior captains there at AirTran don't give a crap about ruining it for everyone else, which is what I totally see happening. Heck, even my stockbroker thinks that Southwest will never integrate the pilots. But Ty knows better. haha. Um, yeah, riiiiight Ty!

Your stockbroker? Baaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaaa!!! Now there's an industry sage!!

Who do you work for ace? Mesa? Gulfstream? I'm sure you'd beg to be stapled at Pinnacle if you could.

2nd or 3rd tier eh? Get schooled jackwagon. AirTran is a Major and with the new contract is only paid less than SWA and ALA. Paid same or higher than all the other Majors on like equipment except for Delta 737NG. Delta DC9 pays equal to AAI B717.

Don't believe me? Go check it out for yourself right here:
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy.html

 

[IAHERJ]

I'm cautiously optimistic for all of us, former AAI and current SWA alike. I wouldn't be surprised to see larger equipment going across the pond by the end of the decade.

Why wait? You can see large equipment going across the pond this afternoon if you like. It will be painted in Delta/United/American and, did I leave anyone else out....oh yeah, U.S. Airways colors. Head out to ATL/EWR/PHL/JFK/DFW/ORD/DTW/CLT/IAH/IAD anytime to watch this take place.

 

[Ty Webb]

Why wait? You can see large equipment going across the pond this afternoon if you like. It will be painted in Delta/United/American and, did I leave anyone else out....oh yeah, U.S. Airways colors. Head out to ATL/EWR/PHL/JFK/DFW/ORD/DTW/CLT/IAH/IAD anytime to watch this take place.

Oh, I can wait until I'm driving it, thanks!

How're things looking at UAL/CAL for someone with your seniority? What equipment/base/type of flying are you doing?

 

[FIREMAN]

SLOT TRANSFER not AIRCRAFT TRANSFER

 

[dicko]

Not blue, not purple, but BLURPLE...

Please ...... It's 'Burple'TM

I understand you work for Southwest, however I invented the technique; "The bastardization of the English language combining the strange mixing of colors".TM

I discovered it during a Peyote fugue late in 1964. You owe me threven dollars .....

 

[IAHERJ]

Oh, I can wait until I'm driving it, thanks!

How're things looking at UAL/CAL for someone with your seniority? What equipment/base/type of flying are you doing?

Just fine. Got about 1000 below me on the CAL side(yes, I'm still looking backwards if that tells you anything..) and who knows after the SLI comes out. IAH based on the 757/767 as FO. Do a little domestic and a bit of international these days. I've got all but 1 weekend off this month and I did better than many but less than a SWA 737 FO on 3rd year pay as an FO on 5 year pay(on 6th year pay now). Still less than if I had stayed at AirTran where I was an early 2003 hire and would be a 717 CA on 8th year pay but you make the decisions you are faced with given the information you have to work with at the time. I don't regret leaving but the SWA pay would have been nice. I hope we can catch up on our small small narrow body pay and adjust upward on the next contract. We have an uphill climb yet to make here at CAL/UAL but I think things will pan out. Never a dull moment in this industry. Good luck with the merger. I know it will be a good thing for all.

IAHERJ

 

[Ty Webb]

Puh-leez. Burple has been a color since eleventeen forty-four.

 

[Ty Webb]

IIAHERJ- Sounds like it worked out A-OK to me. You've got decent seniority and lots of great variety to choose from. If I lived near a CAL domicile and was offered a spot, I probably would have taken it, too. Still way too early for any of us to know the ending.

Regards,
Ty

 

[mt2]

Puh-leez. Burple has been a color since eleventeen forty-four.

Exactly !! I had it in my box of Crayola thirty-eleven colors years ago.

 

[GuppyWN]

I'm cautiously optimistic for all of us, former AAI and current SWA alike. I wouldn't be surprised to see larger equipment going across the pond by the end of the decade.

What? Was Bob planning on that or did your career expectations get a facelift since 9/28?

Gup

 

[dicko]

Exactly !! I had it in my box of Crayola thirty-eleven colors years ago.

Damn you all .......

I'll see you all in the ridiculously small claims court. You'll recognise me. I'll be wearing a velvet burple smoking jacket.

I'm slewing !

 

[Ty Webb]

What? Was Bob planning on that or did your career expectations get a facelift since 9/28?

Gup

Even when Joe L. was CEO the talk at recurrent was the ridiculously low lease rates on 757's and what we could do with those. Maybe you missed it, but even little Sun Country was planning proving runs to Stanstead ... in 737's!

 

[dh82dvr]

Bob its easy for you to say you would be happy to be stapled but rest assured if you were really in aai shoes I think you would feel differently. Who doesn't want to be in the best position possible? Do you think so little of yourself that a staple is good enough. That right there is the attitude of a loser.