If SWA would have bought your jets I'd be wholly onboard with your arguement. SWA did offer preferential interviews to flight crews. Are you pissed at the people who actually owned your jets because they didn't offer you employment?
It's not "just business." It's called "we didn't buy your jets." Although I wish we had. It would be nice flying to Hawaii or carrying our troops to destinations throughout the world.
Gup
Hi Gup,
I think it would have worked well. Hawaii and all...
The reality is ("jets" not withstanding), that as part of the "reorganization" under Dennison (retired LUV CFO, now BOD member) as ATA'S CEO, ATA pulled out of MDW-Florida, PHX, DEN, LAX, LAS, SFO, MSP, BOS... Pretty much all of the markets in which SW directly competed against ATA, plus those that SW would soon begin service to. In addition, SW assumed the gate leases (12?) in MDW that ATA controlled.
This was Dennison's idea of building a code-share?
Believe it or not, the vast majority of ATA employees were proud of the airline they were building, with many employee's having spent 20 years or more there. I would say that many were (some still are) extremely frustrated to watch it all be taken apart by a senior management team of "new hires" that truly seemed to have had other motives.
I would guess the "pissed" part by many, comes not from who bought or did not buy the jets, rather it most likely comes from missing a place that most considered family. Whatever the true conspiracy may have been, lives and livelyhoods were destroyed by what took place. With SW as a prime benefactor to ATA's demise, guilt by association?
Skipper