SWA-AAI: Acquisition or Merger??

[humveedriver]

Fortunately, the pilots at Guadaloupe Airlines that really want to work at Southwest will be given that opportunity via a preferential interview. These pilots will essentially "leap frog" over the very holdout pilots who are currently preventing an integration.

What was once viewed as a bad thing by the junior guys at AirTran is now being viewed as a blessing because they will be senior to pilots that are currently senior to them at AirTran.

From what I'm being told from those guys on the inside, this is how it's playing out.

Good flamebait is an art form. You showed some promise in the beginning. But I am afraid the spark is gone Bob.

 

[livintheredream]

Fortunately, the pilots at Guadaloupe Airlines that really want to work at Southwest will be given that opportunity via a preferential interview. These pilots will essentially "leap frog" over the very holdout pilots who are currently preventing an integration.

What was once viewed as a bad thing by the junior guys at AirTran is now being viewed as a blessing because they will be senior to pilots that are currently senior to them at AirTran.

From what I'm being told from those guys on the inside, this is how it's playing out.

Super Tool!

 

[ASADFW7]

This flare up of how this is going to play out is stupid once again.

 

[carl p]

Fortunately, the pilots at Guadaloupe Airlines that really want to work at Southwest will be given that opportunity via a preferential interview. These pilots will essentially "leap frog" over the very holdout pilots who are currently preventing an integration.

What was once viewed as a bad thing by the junior guys at AirTran is now being viewed as a blessing because they will be senior to pilots that are currently senior to them at AirTran.

From what I'm being told from those guys on the inside, this is how it's playing out.

Since you have all of these connections at SWA, why don't you work there?

 

[Ty Webb]

Since you have all of these connections at SWA, why don't you work there?

Probably for the same reason he didn't provide any info to the guy who was inquiring at the airline that he claims to work for. :laugh:

 

[clr4theapch]

Gental men, creative swearing is not allowed here, most of you know this.. also wheb someone posts like that, please don't extend the violation in your own post by quoting the violation..... they all get deleted and there goes the thread content..

thanks

CLR4.. mod

oh yea.. Bobby orr.. come on man... don't do this again..

 

[RJ Bum]

what thread content????? All that is on these boards is repeated rhetoric....

 

[Bobby Orr 4]

My bad...

Sorry about he creative cussing. I'll re-phrase.
The multiple post AirTran and SWA pilots are equally paranoid, ignorant, and childish. I will exclude Lear and chase. They seem to have a level headed response to this grade 4 debate among professionals. All the others, on both sides are paranoid, ignorant, and childish.
Bob Dylan...give it up. Ty Webb you put someone on your ignore list than post you're ignoring them? My gosh I'd expect that from my 14 year old. The only difference is she wouldn't act like a big baby. Grow up dude.
If you guys are trying to convince yourselves that "I will get relative" or "they will be stapled" please realize that you have very little control over the big picture. You know who you are. Grow up for heaven's sake.
When this charlie fox is done the first AirTran guys (SWA guys) I meet on an over night, pops are on me.
Until then both sides stop being such a ding dang embarassment to the profession.

 

[Ty Webb]

Bob Dylan...give it up. Ty Webb you put someone on your ignore list than post you're ignoring them? My gosh I'd expect that from my 14 year old. The only difference is she wouldn't act like a big baby. Grow up dude.

Uh, oh . . . Dad's home from his trip.

I posted my "ignore list" for my fellow Trannies to consider as one of the manifold paths to FI enlightenment. It works for me.

 

[flynvixen]

Here's how it was explained to me by someone in the know: AirTran is getting bought by Southwest, period. AirTran pilots will be stapled since there is no requirement to merge the seniority lists because Southwest pilots are not represented by ALPA. Just in case ALPA continues to drag this out, Guadaloupe Holdings was formed and the former AirTran pilots will remain there until they agree to being stapled or until Southwest slowly sheds the business of Guadaloupe. Preferential interviews will be offered to Guadaloupe pilots in order to get the pilots that want to be Southwest pilots over sooner while the holdouts simply stay at Guadaloupe.

Nail on head....the citrus guys ignore what they dont want to hear

 

[texman]

Ricky Bobby this is FI. Relax.

 

[swa737-700]

Fortunately, the pilots at Guadaloupe Airlines that really want to work at Southwest will be given that opportunity via a preferential interview. These pilots will essentially "leap frog" over the very holdout pilots who are currently preventing an integration.

What was once viewed as a bad thing by the junior guys at AirTran is now being viewed as a blessing because they will be senior to pilots that are currently senior to them at AirTran.

From what I'm being told from those guys on the inside, this is how it's playing out.

Bob, put a lid on it, now. You are an embarrassment, and I doubt that you are a SWA employee, much less a SWA pilot.

 

[jonjuan]

Bob, put a lid on it, now. You are an embarrassment, and I doubt that you are a SWA employee, much less a SWA pilot.

Now you did it. You just made the LIST.

 

[swa737-700]

Now you did it. You just made the LIST.

And what LIST would you be referencing?

 

[tankerhead]

Bob, put a lid on it, now. You are an embarrassment, and I doubt that you are a SWA employee, much less a SWA pilot.

Pretty sure he's a trash-hauler...Omni or something. I'm just don't get all the flame this guy unleashes in such diarrhea-like torrents. Tranny reject or termination, maybe? Funny to read all the fabricated stuff he spits out.

"I know this guy...."
"I was riding on this jumpseat...."
"An insider told me....."

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

Pretty sure he's a trash-hauler...Omni or something. I'm just don't get all the flame this guy unleashes in such diarrhea-like torrents. Tranny reject or termination, maybe? Funny to read all the fabricated stuff he spits out.

"I know this guy...."
"I was riding on this jumpseat...."
"An insider told me....."

Maybe "instructordude" finally saved up $10 for a new screen name...I can see it now "mom, can I have $10 and borrow your credit card?"

He's now headed to my ignore list as well, highly doubt he.'s a SW pilot and with any luck, he never will be!
KBB

 

[Quiet Flight]

Acquisition

 

[texman]

AT Not To Merge With SWA

If it is only with a Sub LLC, why do we both talk about what is fair, sli, arbitration? ALPA will have to deal with GK/VD. This is what Eagle is to AMR, or what Continental express was to Continental (from a business point).

Any thoughts?


AirTran Stockholders Approve Southwest MergerMerger Currently Expected to Close in Second Quarter of 2011 - ORLANDO, Fla., March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), the parent company of AirTran Airways, announced today that its stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) with and into AirTran at a special meeting held today in Orlando. More than 98.6 percent of the votes cast and 77.5 percent of shares outstanding were voted in favor of the transaction.

"We are grateful for our stockholders' strong vote of confidence in this merger," said Bob Fornaro, AirTran's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "In approving the transaction, our stockholders recognized the value of bringing together AirTran and Southwest to create a platform for increased profitability and sustainable long-term value."
AirTran and Southwest announced the proposed merger on September 27, 2010. The companies are awaiting clearance on the proposed merger from the United States Department of Justice. The merger is currently expected to close by during the second quarter of 2011.
Until the acquisition is approved and finalized, both carriers will continue to operate independently. For more information, please visit: www.lowfaresfarther.com.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Awesome! Another thread filled with spiteful rhetoric, mis/false information, and boastful premonitions.

 

[kwick]

If it is only with a Sub LLC, why do we both talk about what is fair, sli, arbitration? ALPA will have to deal with GK/VD. This is what Eagle is to AMR, or what Continental express was to Continental (from a business point).

Any thoughts?


AirTran Stockholders Approve Southwest MergerMerger Currently Expected to Close in Second Quarter of 2011 - ORLANDO, Fla., March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), the parent company of AirTran Airways, announced today that its stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) with and into AirTran at a special meeting held today in Orlando. More than 98.6 percent of the votes cast and 77.5 percent of shares outstanding were voted in favor of the transaction.

"We are grateful for our stockholders' strong vote of confidence in this merger," said Bob Fornaro, AirTran's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "In approving the transaction, our stockholders recognized the value of bringing together AirTran and Southwest to create a platform for increased profitability and sustainable long-term value."
AirTran and Southwest announced the proposed merger on September 27, 2010. The companies are awaiting clearance on the proposed merger from the United States Department of Justice. The merger is currently expected to close by during the second quarter of 2011.
Until the acquisition is approved and finalized, both carriers will continue to operate independently. For more information, please visit: www.lowfaresfarther.com.

Go back to your c-150!