Head of Midwest Airlines' Parent Company Rips Milwaukee

[maxblast72]

Our CEO has stated several times in townhall meetings that Southwest makes rational capacity decisions (unlike Delta). If Southwest continues to add capacity in Denver (6th largest city soon?), I doubt they are losing money there.

 

[CitationLover]

If any of you are looking for any last minute gift ideas for me or any MIDWEST crew member for that matter, here's one, I want Bryan Bedford, our boss, brought from his happy holiday slumber in Indy to Milwaukee with a big ribbon on his head; and I want to look him straight in the eye and tell him, well Clark does it so much better.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vuVW78tCTM

allelujah, holly SH!T!

ps. Thanks for terminating our travel benefits!!!

allahu ackbar!

dear sweet little 8lb baby jesus, may brian bedford get painful anal warts and genital herpes. i ask this in your mighty name allah! oh dear buddha please then he can transmit the herpes to his little RAH b!tches who have knee pads on their pants for his beckoning.

in the name of the flying spaghetti monster....amen!



whats funny about this is bedford lives in indianapolis. what a sh!thole town too. wtf?!?

 

[CitationLover]

I think you are totally wrong here. You will see alot more originating traffic at MKE now that Airtran/SWA have lowered the average fare at MKE. There is also alot of originating traffic now in the northern Chicago suburbs that is shifting from O'Hare to MKE. Can you really say that MKE has no blue collar workers that will respond to Airtran/SWA's lower fares?

SWA has been at MDW for how long? now you're telling me someone in palatine will goto MKE and not MDW? i think you give MKE way too much credit here.

The porn corridor reappearing (Tristate Kenosha to Milwaukee) would aid "loads" in MKE.

 

[Bringupthebird]

I'm going to have to also disagree with the usage of the word "outsourced." Midwest is owned by RAH, Republic is owned by RAH and F9 is owned by RAH...how exactly is that outsourcing if we fly under Midwest routes using other "owned" aircraft and crews. Sure i can say that Midwest...oh wait Rupeblic...has come into DEN and we have outsourced our flying to them, but in reality we have not, we have just used other company owned aircraft and crews to fly some of our routes while we send the airbus to MKE.

Firing the Midwest pilots because they are earning the amount that was contractually agreed upon isn't outsourcing? How would you describe it?

 

[B6Busdriver]

Bedford is just upset about MKE ticket prices because he realizes Airtran/SWA can make money at these prices while Midwest can't because they don't have the right size airplane to compete with the 2 stronger LCCs. Wonder if he is having second thoughts about the purchase already?

Maxblast you nailed it, it's called buyers remorse.

 

[CitationLover]

Maxblast you nailed it, it's called buyers remorse.

Hopefully it guilts him so much he does the christian thing and turns to gay sex (not that there is anything wrong with that). Follow Ted Haggard's wonderful example.

 

[Skyboy722]

SWA has been at MDW for how long? now you're telling me someone in palatine will goto MKE and not MDW? i think you give MKE way too much credit here.

He said O'Hare.

 

[Skyboy722]

Well when a company comes out and admits to losing a lot of money in a certain market then i think i can pretty easily say they are losing money...i could be wrong. As for Boyd...well, there's not really much to say about him now is there?

I'm going to have to also disagree with the usage of the word "outsourced." Midwest is owned by RAH, Republic is owned by RAH and F9 is owned by RAH...how exactly is that outsourcing if we fly under Midwest routes using other "owned" aircraft and crews. Sure i can say that Midwest...oh wait Rupeblic...has come into DEN and we have outsourced our flying to them, but in reality we have not, we have just used other company owned aircraft and crews to fly some of our routes while we send the airbus to MKE. Sure in our little miniscule pilot brains we see that as outsourcing, but it's not. Now if RAH didn't own F9 and brought a bunch of those little birds into DEN to fly for us then sure, it would be "outsourcing" as to which you referred. Also vice versa, if republic didn't own Midwest but Republic came in and flew all of their routes it would be outsourcing...again, it's not. Until you can remove it from the compnay it is "technically" not outsourcing in the way in which you referred. Would you consider NWA outsourced to DAL? How about CO to UAL...oh wait, that's another one of those crazy ruimors always floating around here. MESA to UAL...yes. Skywest to UAL...yes. Skywest to Airtran...yes(i think that's who is going to be flying for them in MKE). That's outsourcing.

I am REAL, REAL sure that if BB announced tomorrow that he was parking all the airbii and moving all the flying to E190's, before you get a chance to merge pilot lists (putting you out of a job) you'd call it outsourcing!!!

 

[CitationLover]

He said O'Hare.

You're missing my point. If they were to already leave ohare they would have gone to MDW already rather than MKE (the SWA/Air Tran effect has been in Chicago since the early 90's). MKE is expanding because of increased opportunities by all airlines to fly elsewhere directly out of MKE from its customer base in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area. Sure some NW Illinois passengers go there, but I think the numbers are a little overinflated.

 

[maxblast72]

With the amount of passengers I have seen around the MKE airport the last few times I have been there, I would say the SWA/Airtran effect has already taken hold in MKE. Not sure whether they are coming from Wisconsin or Illinois, but the airport and city have to be thrilled either way.

Another benefit for the city, Airtran crew planning put out a memo this morning to pilots that MKE will open as a 737 crew base (25 crews) in a few months to support the west coast, Florida, and Caribbean charter flying. I guess the deadheading and hotel costs are getting too high.