SWA/FL Codeshare

[Lear70]

SUCKS TO BE YOU.....East Texas ain't that bad. You will fit in quit well, you know what they say...Notin bit queers and steers, so I take it you don't have a tail and horns

And when you can't argue the facts, the personal attacks come out.

Good ole' FlightInfo...

I'll be just fine. Dropping as many trips as possible to still pay the bills and just enjoying my life outside work. I only work 6 days this month and draw 76 hrs of credit; pretty sweet deal. Soaking it up while I can and hoping a base pops up in BNA. Would be nice to sit reserve from home if I have to sit reserve.

I'll always find my happy place eventually. If people could identify with how the deal affected the AAI pilots and SINCERELY say "Sorry, that sucks, but we've got a good airline and hopefully you'll enjoy being here", we'd quit arguing over this stuff and just move on, rather than challenging the truth of what happened.

Be gracious winners. You can do it.

 

[Ty Webb]

Hey,

It's all water under the bridge at this point, but I'd be glad to lay out ever difference between Pay and QOL between both carriers if you'd like.

I appreciate the offer, Red, but I don't think it will make any difference; there are no direct comparisons. . . . If you live in base, you can't appreciate what is important to a commuter. And, if you are still on your first wife, the money isn't as important as when you're on your third, or so I hear.

Sorry about the "stupid" comment, probably uncalled for, but the only thing more aggravating than losing something is to to lose it to someone who doesn't appreciate what it is they are getting- we can probably all agree on that.

Ty

 

[Tripower455]

Sorry about the "stupid" comment, probably uncalled for, but the only thing more aggravating than losing something is to to lose it to someone who doesn't appreciate what it is they are getting- we can probably all agree on that.

Ty

Oh, the irony........


Talk to some of our MCO FOs and see if they think they "won" anything out of this deal.

Plenty of misery on this side of the fence.....

 

[fletch717]

Oh, the irony........


Talk to some of our MCO FOs and see if they think they "won" anything out of this deal.

Plenty of misery on this side of the fence.....

That's what happens when you make EVERYBODY at AT an FO. You did the best you could to staple us,now you have to deal with the mess you created. Had there been a fair intergration this would not have harmed so many.

 

[Tripower455]

That's what happens when you make EVERYBODY at AT an FO. You did the best you could to staple us,now you have to deal with the mess you created. Had there been a fair intergration this would not have harmed so many.

I had nothing WHATSOEVER to do with this mess.... If it were up to me, we never would've bought you in the first place. My hands are clean.

Your MEC, on the other hand, gave away all of your Capt seats AND pay parity from day one.

As for the rest.... Many of our guys were HARMED, permanently, by this mess.

 

[Lear70]

Your MEC, on the other hand, gave away all of your Capt seats AND pay parity from day one.

Incorrect. We protected our 717 Captain seats, and Southwest management REFUSED to give us pay parity. We certainly didn't "give away" pay parity, unless you're referring to voting down the first Agreement...?

As for the rest.... Many of our guys were HARMED, permanently, by this mess.

Au contraire, mon frer. Refer back to a post by one of your other coworkers who correctly stated that by the end of their careers, every one of your pilots will have either the same retirement position or HIGHER than they would have from a relative bidding position of a stand-alone Southwest.

Not to mention, ALL of your F/O's will upgrade within the same time, OR SOONER, than they were scheduled to with known deliveries AND Classic retirements pre-merger.

The harm isn't permanent. Not by a long shot.

Do some of your F/O's lose now? Yes, but their OSW coworkers are upgrading sooner into OUR Captain seats. So basically, your senior F/O's are profiting at the expense of your junior F/O's getting bumped from their base and our CA's getting bumped from their seat.

Within a few years, those F/O's will get their base back, and will actually upgrade sooner due to the 737's we're bringing with all our stapled F/O's. It's just simple math.

The only OSW who can claim "permanent" harm do so with the theoretical departure of the Classics without replacement aircraft, which we DON'T KNOW at this point and which would require MASSIVE shrinkage of the airline, something SWA management has said they're not interested in, so it's a bit of a stretch to go there.

No SW pilot is PERMANENTLY harmed.

 

[humveedriver]

Both groups have a basic undertanding of the others pre-merger position. And I think most respect those positions. But at the end of the day, neither side really cares about what the other had or didn't have. That is why there is absolutely no point in discussing the SLI agreement anymore.

 

[PCL_128]

Be gracious winners. You can do it.

No, they really can't.

 

[Dash Power]

Both groups have a basic undertanding of the others pre-merger position. And I think most respect those positions. But at the end of the day, neither side really cares about what the other had or didn't have. That is why there is absolutely no point in discussing the SLI agreement anymore.

Absolutely no point. It is what it is.

Neither side apparently wanted SWA to purchase AT. And both sides approved the SLI by 83%.

Just time to move on and accept the things you can control as well as things you can not.

 

[General Lee]

Absolutely no point. It is what it is.

Neither side apparently wanted SWA to purchase AT. And both sides approved the SLI by 83%.

Just time to move on and accept the things you can control as well as things you can not.

Thanks Hugo Chavez! The election in Venezuela was FAIR...... What an idiot. You still think 83% of the votes from the AT pilots were with smiles on their faces? IDIOT. That will be remembered by all of the AT pilots until they retire at SWA. Great!


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Sy-bill]

Absolutely no point. It is what it is.

Neither side apparently wanted SWA to purchase AT. And both sides approved the SLI by 83%.

Just time to move on and accept the things you can control as well as things you can not.

Spot on.

Curiously only an outsider seems to be the angriest one of all.

 

[scoreboardII]

whew, glad thats over till we do it again in another three weeks.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

whew, glad thats over till we do it again in another three weeks.

It sounds like "La Genitalia's" STD's, it raises it's ugly head every few weeks and then goes away, only for her to continue to spread that crap!

Stay away from "La Genitalia", she and her stuff are Bad News!!!

Later,
KBB

 

[say again]

TYou still think 83% of the votes from the AT pilots were with smiles on their faces? IDIOT.


Bye Bye---General Lee

Smiles or not, they still voted for it. As for the 717 CA fiasco, if what is being said is true, then that is just plain f@#ked up. I have no dog in this fight as I don't work for either company, but I'm still interested in all mergers as it may affect future mergers. I just wish the best of luck to both sides!!

 

[Tripower455]

Incorrect. We protected our 717 Captain seats, and Southwest management REFUSED to give us pay parity. We certainly didn't "give away" pay parity, unless you're referring to voting down the first Agreement...?



Au contraire, mon frer. Refer back to a post by one of your other coworkers who correctly stated that by the end of their careers, every one of your pilots will have either the same retirement position or HIGHER than they would have from a relative bidding position of a stand-alone Southwest.

Not to mention, ALL of your F/O's will upgrade within the same time, OR SOONER, than they were scheduled to with known deliveries AND Classic retirements pre-merger.

The harm isn't permanent. Not by a long shot.

Do some of your F/O's lose now? Yes, but their OSW coworkers are upgrading sooner into OUR Captain seats. So basically, your senior F/O's are profiting at the expense of your junior F/O's getting bumped from their base and our CA's getting bumped from their seat.

Within a few years, those F/O's will get their base back, and will actually upgrade sooner due to the 737's we're bringing with all our stapled F/O's. It's just simple math.

The only OSW who can claim "permanent" harm do so with the theoretical departure of the Classics without replacement aircraft, which we DON'T KNOW at this point and which would require MASSIVE shrinkage of the airline, something SWA management has said they're not interested in, so it's a bit of a stretch to go there.

No SW pilot is PERMANENTLY harmed.

You're right, what was I thinking? This acquisition is a GREAT deal for EVERY SW guy! Thanks!

 

[FlyinGuy]

That's because you're not the one who's getting your Quality of Life hammered when you "cross the partition" (when there shouldn't be a "partition", it should have been one group on FAA SOC like nearly every other airline merger out there). You simply aren't looking at it from our perspective, and the truth is that very little changes for you with this deal because your management team went to bat for you.


Wow. A WHOLE 15%? A whole WHOPPING 15%? That's just crazy talk right there...


Hey, math doesn't lie. I was bidding in the top 200 F/O's of a nearly 900 pool of F/O's (approx). That's roughly the top 20%.

Now I'm in the BOTTOM 20% of F/O's, NEARLY THE BOTTOM 10% bidding at 88%, courtesy of losing 2.5 years of seniority when SWA was hiring 800+ a year. That's nearly a 70% relative loss of bidding power, no matter HOW you slice it, which is why I've been bypassing on our training bids to come over there. Too big of a seniority hit, especially until all the guys junior to me HERE come over there and plug the reserve holes in the West Coast bases. 7 people have come out of MCO from the right seat of the 737, leaving me bidding #1 and I like it.

Twist it any way you want, but your own pilots on here have admitted that being that low on the totem pole, I'm going to be sitting reserve somewhere and I won't be able to manipulate my schedule like you guys talk about until I'm well above the 50% mark, which doesn't happen in the F/O ranks until I'm about 48, and NEVER happens when I upgrade at close to age 55, barring some pretty serious double-digit growth somewhere between now and then. I'm going to retire working weekends and holidays flying 6 legs a day through East Texas. Awesome.

You can be "tired of hearing it" all you want, but the truth doesn't die just because you don't like it. I'm stuck with it, but I haven't brought it up on here lately unless other people (like you) make some comment like the above or say something else erroneous about the integration like one of our own, Old Man Pilot back on page 5. I didn't say squat about it until then.

I will quit mentioning it as long as people simply shut up about it. Again, sorry you don't like hearing the truth that WE ARE GOING TO BE LIVING. The numbers are what the numbers are. Period. The end.

You say the math does not lie, but that is a lie. By your math, no SWA pilot was/is harmed. Anyone can use stats and numbers to say what they want. So, did this deal suck for you....yep....did this deal suck for many of our F/O's....yep. I bet many of them could crank out a few numbers to prove their point. Bottom line, most are not happy.

Oh, when was SWA hiring 800+ a year? I must have missed that.

 

[Lear70]

You say the math does not lie, but that is a lie. By your math, no SWA pilot was/is harmed. Anyone can use stats and numbers to say what they want. So, did this deal suck for you....yep....did this deal suck for many of our F/O's....yep. I bet many of them could crank out a few numbers to prove their point. Bottom line, most are not happy.

Oh, when was SWA hiring 800+ a year? I must have missed that.

The 800 was an exaggeration. It actually comes out to about a 1,600 number loss from date of hire - 2.5 years. Don't feel bad, you're not alone in not understanding that. When I pull the list out and show SWA guys where I was and where I ended up, they're shocked.

If you can prove me wrong with the actual math, knock yourself out. You know who I am. Find me on the AAI MSL on date of announcement then find me on the combined list.

Pretty clear how much I lost, and I'm not in the minority of AAI pilots. The only ones not harmed were the ones who would have been stapled by DoH anyway.

And no, no Southwest pilot was permanently harmed. Short term base hopping pain and diluted lines from the integration? Sure. Permanent harm? Nope. It's frustrating that you guys can't look around at every other recent merger and realize that, compared to arbitration results of recent years, your pilots made out like bandits. The only thing more you could have accomplished was stapling EVERYONE, and not just 1/3 of us.

 

[Dash Power]

It's frustrating that you guys can't look around at every other recent merger and realize that, compared to arbitration results of recent years, your pilots made out like bandits.

You have no idea how disappointing that statement is to every SWA pilot who reads that on this board.

We all wish SWA would not have bought your company. Every single one of us.

 

[Lear70]

You have no idea how disappointing that statement is to every SWA pilot who reads that on this board.

We all wish SWA would not have bought your company. Every single one of us.

I guess that about sums it up for where both sides are now.

At the expense of sounding repetitive, it is what it is. Nothing to do but simply make the best of it.

 

[Dash Power]

I guess that about sums it up for where both sides are now.

At the expense of sounding repetitive, it is what it is. Nothing to do but simply make the best of it.

So stop talking about it then. K?