SWA gettin rid of 717s? It don't sound like it you hillbillies! That's FANTASTIC

[General Lee]

WTF? uke:

I must have had a Corndog Quesadilla special at the LBB Holiday Inn bar like you guys do every Saturday night! HEEEEEE---HAW!


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Jar Jar]

Genny you spend so much time figuring out how to take another dig at SWA when you yourself seem wholly convinced that they are past their prime and certainly no longer the growth machine of years past. Why??

Alaska JVs, Frontier type pay your competition to fly against you contracts, and the fact that a 19 year old FO with 252 hours in a 172 is flying YOUR customers into an airport tonight while talking about how awesome it was to fly in the rain! Those are the things most likely to be detrimental to what remains of your career, not SWA.

 

[Fubijaakr]

AAI guys would do well to bid off the 717 ASAP.

 

[Whataburger]

Well, it means your Airtran Brothers and Sisters should be around to see that culture of yours THRIVE........or....... And when you get rid of the 717s, you can REPLACE them with new or used 737s, which will be great for all of you, since you will finally be on the same payscale. It'll be neat watching you guys preflight next to each other. You guys can give friendly waves....


Bye Bye---General Lee

Most of your drivel will be up to the guys in Dallas to decide. As far as preflights go, even though the amount of originators grow and grow and grow in the A-T-L, we only have to preflight the originating leg. Not much time to wave after that. We will be busy taking your marketshare. That which you have outsourced or given away. How much ATL DAL/NWA is done by RJ's now? 70%, is that right? We will be doing 100% of our flying, and a greater % of DAL flying every month!!

TWO WORDS, Southwest Effect. Ask your wife what it means. I am sure she studied it in school when she was studying how companies are supposed to be run. Since she is from the L-B-B and wins the bread in the family, she will be able to break it down into real easy to understand, sweet sounding words that even a basement-dwelling, cheeto eating, dioushe bag such as yourself can understand. Grilled General Cheese time? Momma's callin'.

 

[Whataburger]

Come on now, some of you guys are from Texas, and you need "Cowboy talk." Don't mess with Texas! CORRECT. You're the center of the Universe! RIGHT AGAIN


Bye Bye--General Lee

There is a difference between hillibilly and "cowboy talk." Hillbilly is a unique American dialect fostered in the hollers of the Apalachian Mountains.

Cowboy Talk would include metaphorically driven creative phrases, such as:

If General Cheese's brain was made of leather, you could not saddle a flea.

 

[General Lee]

Most of your drivel will be up to the guys in Dallas to decide. As far as preflights go, even though the amount of originators grow and grow and grow in the A-T-L, we only have to preflight the originating leg. Not much time to wave after that. We will be busy taking your marketshare. That which you have outsourced or given away. How much ATL DAL/NWA is done by RJ's now? 70%, is that right? We will be doing 100% of our flying, and a greater % of DAL flying every month!!

TWO WORDS, Southwest Effect. Ask your wife what it means. I am sure she studied it in school when she was studying how companies are supposed to be run. Since she is from the L-B-B and wins the bread in the family, she will be able to break it down into real easy to understand, sweet sounding words that even a basement-dwelling, cheeto eating, dioushe bag such as yourself can understand. Grilled General Cheese time? Momma's callin'.

Southwest effect? Wait, you already announced cutting back the number of departures in ATL each day, down to 175. That means cutting back a lot of the current 717 service to smaller cities, and also redundent cities on other routes, like out of MCO to the NE. Maybe you haven't heard yet, but a rumor is out there that says many CRJs could be leaving ATL for MEM (where you are not big, at all), and some of the mainline planes there will come to ATL to compete and pound you?

What marketshare will you be taking again in ATL? First of all, any Airtran customers who enjoyed their first class product will flee your cattle car quickly. Thanks for that. Secondly, your fares aren't necessarily the lowest (as stated in an article posted last week), and merger costs and losses due to fuel hedges won't allow you to go much lower. You are behind the power curve a bit, and you need to make up for those extra costs. Throw in the poor offers you made your new brothers and sisters, along with management siding with YOU after you already had a process agreement for the SLI, and some of your new employees in ATL may not be all that enthused to help you out too much.

How has that Southwest effect helped you lately in SLC? How about the SEA to GEG and BOI routes you just dumped? Not all of your routes are doing great. How about BOS to PHL and PHL to PIT? GONE. Sounds like the new Southwest effect is to abandon certain markets as quick as you entered them initially.

Look Wendy's, you are well paid to fly a turd colored old 737-300 from Little Rock to St. Louis. That sucks. Enjoy your pay and those 20 minute turns to nowhere-ville. Omaha's calling, and you just told them you're in Islip instead. Good for you.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[Fubijaakr]

Well, GenLee, in defense of SWA, they were in GEG-SEA and SEA-BOI for 7 or 8 years. Their load factors between those cities wasn't great due to customer loyalty to the AS mileage plan.

That they finally pulled out was probably a sound business decision based on historic load factors.

 

[Mercyful Fate]

Well, GenLee, in defense of SWA, they were in GEG-SEA and SEA-BOI for 7 or 8 years. Their load factors between those cities wasn't great due to customer loyalty to the AS mileage plan.

That they finally pulled out was probably a sound business decision based on historic load factors.

Excellent point.....I doubt anyone could yank those folks from AS on these routes....

 

[texman]

Southwest effect? Wait, you already announced cutting back the number of departures in ATL each day, down to 175. That means cutting back a lot of the current 717 service to smaller cities, and also redundent cities on other routes, like out of MCO to the NE. Maybe you haven't heard yet, but a rumor is out there that says many CRJs could be leaving ATL for MEM (where you are not big, at all), and some of the mainline planes there will come to ATL to compete and pound you?

What marketshare will you be taking again in ATL? First of all, any Airtran customers who enjoyed their first class product will flee your cattle car quickly. Thanks for that. Secondly, your fares aren't necessarily the lowest (as stated in an article posted last week), and merger costs and losses due to fuel hedges won't allow you to go much lower. You are behind the power curve a bit, and you need to make up for those extra costs. Throw in the poor offers you made your new brothers and sisters, along with management siding with YOU after you already had a process agreement for the SLI, and some of your new employees in ATL may not be all that enthused to help you out too much.

How has that Southwest effect helped you lately in SLC? How about the SEA to GEG and BOI routes you just dumped? Not all of your routes are doing great. How about BOS to PHL and PHL to PIT? GONE. Sounds like the new Southwest effect is to abandon certain markets as quick as you entered them initially.

Look Wendy's, you are well paid to fly a turd colored old 737-300 from Little Rock to St. Louis. That sucks. Enjoy your pay and those 20 minute turns to nowhere-ville. Omaha's calling, and you just told them you're in Islip instead. Good for you.


Bye Bye---General Lee

So the question is what are you going to really do? You and all of us puff our chess, but you and I know you are a skilled blue collar worker that has no MGT position to run a airline. I think we should all apply to be the CEO.LOL! What a joke!

 

[General Lee]

So the question is what are you going to really do? You and all of us puff our chess, but you and I know you are a skilled blue collar worker that has no MGT position to run a airline. I think we should all apply to be the CEO.LOL! What a joke!

I am going to run for President of the Universe? Ty Webb will be my Vice President, Fubi will be Sec. of the Universe, Dan Roman will be Vice Roy of Saturn and Jupiter, OYS will be head of the TSA, HAL will be Chief Justice of the Intergalactic Supreme Court, Diesel 8 will lead exploration for oil on outer asteroid belts, and Gup, Redflyer, and Slaquer5 will all be incharge of a penal colony on Uranus. After we get that all figured out, we will take on the airlines!


Bye Bye----General Lee