Southwest 3rd QTR LOSS

[Fubijaakr]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alaska makes as almost as much as SWA LOSES in the 3rd quarter. Wow, 4 times as many airplanes but the performance difference is $240M...IN ONE QUARTER.

Looks like big pay cuts coming at SWA. How's that Kool-Aid tasting now, boys? Good thing those cheesy rayon flag ties are cheap.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

 

[General Lee]

Man alive, Herb and Colleen are going to be called out on this one. Maybe they will come out of retirement again (twice in a month?)to go yell at this hedger guy. Not good news at all. Accounting charges come up to bite you every once and awhile, and during the most profitable quarter of the year too? Uh-oh..... big loss and crumbling culture. NOT GOOD.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[ackattacker]

As much as I love a good SWA bashing I have to agree with Willie on this one... accounting losses are not the same thing as operating losses. Nothing to see here, really, so long as the operation is generating actual cash.

 

[shootr]

Because of the operating profit, we got a 2% raise instead of a 3% raise. Not exactly a pay cut.

 

[General Lee]

Because of the operating profit, we got a 2% raise instead of a 3% raise. Not exactly a pay cut.

Yes, but this quarter is USUALLY the best of all 4. Could this be the START of the END? Could this lead to the start of a bad ending? Could the bad ending start with this bad news? Could your happy endings end thanks to this start of the bad news bears? This all could be scary. Very dramatic, indeed! Regardless, a loss is a loss.



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Fubijaakr]

No matter how they try to spin it, a loss is a LOSS. The easiest way to re-establish profitability in an airline is to cut....wait for it....LABOR costs. And if the God King comes to SWAPA and asks for "relief" wanna bet he gets it?

 

[tankerhead]

GL, your senseless drivel is tiresome. Go running or jump in the pool or watch porn. Anything is more productive than unleashing your digital diarrhea.

 

[TahoeBoarder]

You guys are real geniuses. You obviously have no comprehension of mark to market accounting. LUV beat analysts' expectations on the top and bottom line and thus the stock is up 5% on an otherwise flat day.
Yeah, the sky is falling.

 

[Fubijaakr]

5% of $8 = $.40. Big deal.

 

[Whataburger]

Man alive, Herb and Colleen are going to be called out on this one. Maybe they will come out of retirement again (twice in a month?)to go yell at this hedger guy. Not good news at all. Accounting charges come up to bite you every once and awhile, and during the most profitable quarter of the year too? Uh-oh..... big loss and crumbling culture. NOT GOOD.


Bye Bye---General Lee

1. Your airline has lost billions in the last decade. You Declared BANKRUPTCY. Your airline was officially garbage with no way to un-******************** itself w/o ripping off all the people it owed money to. Including its employees.

I think we'll be okay, but thanks for caring.

I believe our profit during the last decade was better than Delta's profit for it's first 75 years.

Yep, we lost money cut and dried.