Southwest to get new RJ Partner in 2009!

[BLUE BAYOU]

I've also heard that if the union goes through at Jetblue, management was looking at either Republic or Air Wisconsin to fly our E-190s!!!

 

[Monster Buck]

Sounds like someone wants you to be scared of having a union. Another anti union tactic. Can you believe it? Also a regional being outsourced to a regional.....Scary!

 

[Dizel8]

I've also heard that if the union goes through at Jetblue, management was looking at either Republic or Air Wisconsin to fly our E-190s!!!

Yet another great scare from BB!

You get paid by the word or by the hour?

 

[redflyer65]

I get the impression that SW passengers love the 737 cabin, the RJ is a sardine can to be shoe-horned into.

If GK decides to mess with this formula, I fear there will be a huge backlash. There will be nothing seperating SW from any legacy.

 

[007]

Can you believe it? Also a regional being outsourced to a regional.....Scary!

I could, just look at Midwest.

 

[Monster Buck]

I could, just look at Midwest.

I agree. Very sad. What a bunch of BS for Midwest. Gotta have strong scope!
Not perfect but it helps.

 

[Abernathy]

How long has this rumor been going on? I heard about Skywest flying EMB-175s for Southwest a year ago. Friend of mine even bought Skywest stock after a Skywest jumpseater was wetting himself telling my buddy about it.


Not happening.

Though, I did hear recently that United and USAir are looking to merge in 2010 with the head of the new company to be Jonathan Ornstein.

 

[Indy refugee]

I've also heard that if the union goes through at Jetblue, management was looking at either Republic or Air Wisconsin to fly our E-190s!!!

Funny!! I heard that if the union goes through at Jetblue global warming will accelerate, the financial markets will crash, fuel prices will double overnight (again), Iran will get the BOMB, Iraq will fall into civil unrest, N Korea will invade S Korea, hurricane season will destroy FL, JB will furlough 3000 pilots, dogs and cats will be living together!!

It's scary stuff!

OTOH, maybe Jetblue pilots will finally have a say in their future. You decide!!

 

[BUDDHA145]

Though, I did hear recently that United and USAir are looking to merge in 2010 with the head of the new company to be Jonathan Ornstein.

The mother of all rumors!!! but ill admit...fkn "SCARY" one!!!

 

[N1atEcon]

This thread is stupid and a waste of bandwidth. Why in the last 2 years have the threads on this forum become more and more childish. I feel like I am listening to a bunch of high school girls starting rumors on about half these threads.

 

[BUDDHA145]

I feel like I am listening to a bunch of high school girls starting rumors on about half these threads.

AND YOU KEEP COMING BACK AND BACK AND BACK!!!

HA YA DOING GIRL!!!!

 

[lookin4better]

Lame thread alert!....

Lame and flame....

The person who posted this just wanted to get people worked up....

If this is true it would be just about the final nail in the coffin for this industry.... and it amazes me there are kids who will gloat and get excited to take someone elses job.... fly an airplane painted by another company and claim it to be " their " flying.

 

[relief tube]

Why would southwest need another regional? They've had one for years- the automobile.

Our walmart-loving nation loves driving hundreds of extra miles just to save $42.59

 

[mayoplane]

Who are you?

According to the past posts, PinnacleDude is a SWA new hire....so why is he talking like an outsider? Are you with SWA or SWA wanna be?

 

[FlyinGuy]

Unfortunately there may be some legs to these rumors! GK has changed the model of SWA and we are about to get the shaft. If this trend continues, we will be like everyone else. Our business model was different and it worked. Now we are going the way of the legacys.

 

[jonjuan]

Unfortunately there may be some legs to these rumors! GK has changed the model of SWA and we are about to get the shaft. If this trend continues, we will be like everyone else. Our business model was different and it worked. Now we are going the way of the legacys.

So, I guess you are smarter than GK. Sorry to hear that he's about to ruin the timeless, successful business model because it really is all about you.

 

[TheCheat]

More importantly, Jonjon, who is that babe in your avatar?

Now back to your regularly scheduled rumormongoring...

 

[DH2WN]

We just got the info today from the company and swapa.

No RJ codeshare

 

[RDG]

We just got the info today from the company and swapa.

No RJ codeshare

+1. Although the memo was a little light on the details. I need to see the TA. Codeshare is a dealbreaker all on its own for me. If it isn't rock solid, no need to even read the rest. No vote.

 

[Poahi]

it is already a done deal.

Some other favorites:

"I have it on good authority..."
"I heard it on the 4th,*****5th, 8th, 10th, 1st floor..."
"I have a friend in the maintenance, training, dispatch, marketing, shoe shining department..."
"I heard this from a generally reliable source..."
"It's gonna happen..."
"It's true because there was a xxx plane at the xxx hangar being repaired, painted, c-checked..."

This is the kind of nonsense that keeps those pretty girls to our left (you know, the models in the banner ads) in front of the camera.

Just try and be more innovative next time and will will keep feeding the trolls.

 

[Flopgut]

I'd say the WestJet deal is ok, they're a known product, and we're working closely with them on other (non code share) projects. I think the quality is up to SWA standards.

I don't think we can say the same about a 2 year old Mexican start up (flying Airbuses btw, not 737's) or an RJ provider.

Could you elaborate on that standard of "quality"?

Remember the episode of AILRLINE where the two SWA agents were hustling the older couple between terminals to a connection on Korean Airlines? They were both nearly in cardiac arrest and I think they thought they were being abducted. One of the SWA hottie types kept screaming into a radio the play by play as though this were the most complex endeavor feat ever attempted in commercial aviation.

Is that what you're talking about? Because that's not what I've seen in Mexico or anywhere else in any country you might call third world.

I'd love for SWA to get to start doing some international flying. I'd like for you to see how nice it is. I'd especially like to be there at the moment the SWA collective figures out why US domestic sucks so bad.

 

[Flying the Line]

I checked some recent loads from Sea to Boi and they are less than 20% load factor.

 

[dc8b75v8r]

codeshare vs outsourcing for WN

Isn't the Westjet and the Mexico thing more about the fact that WN is not a flag carrier yet, and they need the codeshare so they can feed the traffic between the res/ticketing systems to cities outside the USA?

I personally was hoping ATA could have hung on long enough, but, oh well....

hopefully the WN crews can be unified enough to draw the line in the sand.

Good Luck to ya'll

 

[spitfire1500]

Are you the same Pinnacle guy that told me you fly the "9"? When I said that I didn't know that Pinnacle had DC-9s you said you meant the CRJ900.
If it is you, again my congrats on moving on up to the heavy iron. If Pinnacle gets the CRJ1000 to fly for SWA then you can say you fly the "10".....awesome dude!

CRJ900, DC9, B717, B737 they're all RJ's if you define them by their range using the CRJ 900 and 700 as measuring sticks. It seems manufacturers call more and more planes "RJ's" so they can use the terminology as an excuse to pay crews less. Pretty soon the 737 will be the BRJ.

 

[SkiFishFly]

Just to keep things stirred up...

Are the rumored changes required to allow the purchase of AAI with the 717s???

 

[Hamburger]

I personally was hoping ATA could have hung on long enough, but, oh well....

Good Luck to ya'll

If you think that anything that happened at ATA under the puppet regime of Dennison was even one minute off of the schedule WN wanted, you haven't been paying attention.

 

[ofacegangsta]

Could you elaborate on that standard of "quality"?

Remember the episode of AILRLINE where the two SWA agents were hustling the older couple between terminals to a connection on Korean Airlines? They were both nearly in cardiac arrest and I think they thought they were being abducted. One of the SWA hottie types kept screaming into a radio the play by play as though this were the most complex endeavor feat ever attempted in commercial aviation.

Is that what you're talking about? Because that's not what I've seen in Mexico or anywhere else in any country you might call third world.

I'd love for SWA to get to start doing some international flying. I'd like for you to see how nice it is. I'd especially like to be there at the moment the SWA collective figures out why US domestic sucks so bad.

So I guess the "SWA people sucked because they were trying to connect people to another airline?" SWA must have terminated that code-share. We hate people trying to help other people get where they're going.