SWA goes after RJs again

[HowardBorden]

As I said before, your looking at the wrong city pair and the wrong base. Keep searching Junior Sherlock and maybe you'll come up with it.

Riiiiiight. You do allnighters home from a base with two flights avail, the first one being 1210am. (DL has a 1245am, your second choice) It has to be a West Coast base, they have allnighters. OAK doesn't work. PHX, nah, not really. DEN? Nah, not enough. Vegas? Yup. That's it. Then Google 1210am departures from LAS. And sorry, the Spirit flight arrives at 506am at MSP, and continues onto ORD.

Yup. Keep dancin Francis. Hey, I've always said I live in ATL. No biggie sport, just bid MDW and your commute will be a lot shorter.

Of course I won't take your dumb bet. But, I would like you to prove that there is a 1210am push to somewhere and only 1 backup. That's what you stated. And, it has to be from a SWA base, and a scheduled AIRLINE flight. Don't go bogus and say "I fly UPS...." Most commuters who don't live in one of your bases don't want to hitch a ride to the cargo side of any airport.

This will prove whether or not you are a liar. Your move. Gimme another city pair with a 1210am push and a back up.

So, you take Spirit to MSP from LAS at 1210am? Which nights usually?

Wrong again smart guy. You got the right half of the country, but wrong base.

Uhhh, it looks like it is 1-1, although I don't remember the one I supposedly lost. He can't come up with a 1210am allnight push with a backup he told someone else he commutes on. Did he lie? If he says a cargo plane, we can check departure times on Flightaware. He is gonna lose this one. And, who cares if he commutes on Spirit to MSP?

Howie,

You're going WAY OVERBOARD. I gotcha. You weren't responding to me, actually to someone else. I just figured it out. Enjoy Burnsville. So, are the Spirit guys LAS based too?

Well I guess it's two to nothing. I showed you what the first wager offer was and you lost that one:

Dallas city manager A.C. Gonzalez announced today that he would approve an agreement between Virgin America and American Airlines to transfer the lease on two gates at the city-owned airport to the San Francisco-based carrier. American was forced to divest the gates as part of its antitrust settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice related to its merger with US Airways.
http://blogs.star-telegram.com/sky_talk/2014/05/virgin-america-wins-love-field-gates.html

And since you've said: "Of course I won't take your dumb bet." You're unwilling to let me show you that I'm right again. Don't worry it's exactly what I figured.

 

[Nindiri]

This is quality entertainment.

 

[waveflyer]

Of course I won't take your dumb bet. But, I would like you to prove that there is a 1210am push to somewhere and only 1 backup. That's what you stated. And, it has to be from a SWA base, and a scheduled AIRLINE flight. Don't go bogus and say "I fly UPS...." Most commuters who don't live in one of your bases don't want to hitch a ride to the cargo side of any airport.

This will prove whether or not you are a liar. Your move. Gimme another city pair with a 1210am push and a back up.



Bye Bye---General Lee

Man, I'm not catching up to this but why would UPS or fedex be bogus?
Hmm, $50-90 to catch a shuttle to a hotel- or a $10 cab to the other side and be in your own bed?

I know what I'd choose

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

This thread is pure gold! The title needs to be "Troll Fight".....

 

[SpauldingSmails]

This thread is pure gold! The title needs to be "Troll Fight".....

You know what they say about arguing on the internet.

Of specific humor to me, is that this is the crowd who touts their riches and extensive time off. I guess this is what you do with 200k a year and 18 days off?

 

[redflyer65]

Hey, if you where here you could find out first hand.

I hear Delta is good too, just have to perfect that 3hr terminal walk and you'd have it made!

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Thanks, already at DAL.

 

[PCL_128]

My favorite part is the loser who mocks those without a college degree who can't even figure out the difference between "where" and "were," "their" and "there," and "your" and "you're." He's a real college genius, that one! :laugh:

 

[General Lee]

Man, I'm not catching up to this but why would UPS or fedex be bogus?
Hmm, $50-90 to catch a shuttle to a hotel- or a $10 cab to the other side and be in your own bed?

I know what I'd choose

If you had read his original post to the other guy, he made it sound easy, with a 1210am push and then a back up. If you go Cargo, most aren't really "scheduled", plus where is the back up? On the other cargo ramp? Not every airport has cargo in one area (like ATL). I guess he would run across actives to catch his back up??? Doesn't make sense, and isn't easy.

So Wavey, I figured it out, and Howie lost. I stated I would take him up on his bet, but for 1 week off, not a month. All he has to do is find a "scheduled" 1210am push with ONE back up to his home city.

Go for it!


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

Hey, if you where here you could find out first hand.

I hear Delta is good too, just have to perfect that 3hr terminal walk and you'd have it made!

Not when you do one leg to Europe or South America Red. One leg over, one leg back, two opportunities for sundaes. Darn Fannnntastic!



Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[General Lee]

You know what they say about arguing on the internet.

Of specific humor to me, is that this is the crowd who touts their riches and extensive time off. I guess this is what you do with 200k a year and 18 days off?

INTL hotels have wifi, and after a good dinner or in the lobby prior to pick up, there's always time to glance and then laugh at FI....


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[waveflyer]

Not when you do one leg to Europe or South America Red. One leg over, one leg back, two opportunities for sundaes. Darn Fannnntastic!



Bye Bye---General Lee

We ALL know you dalpa sellouts don't care about your domestic side or their QOL- that's why you outsource half! of it

 

[Scoot 11]

We ALL know you dalpa sellouts don't care about your domestic side or their QOL- that's why you outsource half! of it

Oh look, it's the DL stalker. Don't you have a job to buy? Too bad you couldn't buy that RJ job too, sh1thead! After you and your man are set financially.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

We ALL know you dalpa sellouts don't care about your domestic side or their QOL- that's why you outsource half! of it

Sorry Wavey....half was when you were buying your type rating to get "hired" at SWA while still playing nice flying your RJ for us.....(Where was your voice back then?)

It's not half the ASMs anymore.....cool story though bro!

 

[General Lee]

We ALL know you dalpa sellouts don't care about your domestic side or their QOL- that's why you outsource half! of it

Thanks to your management sub leasing the 88 717s to Delta for cheap and the parking of 200+ RJs, that "half" is shrinking fast. But, your non type rated applicants still have to pay "full" price for a type. Not many will be leaving the big 3 either with fresh 737 types after seeing the type of stagnation you guys have and will have for years. Oh well.


Bye Bye---General Lee

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Not all of us paid for our type. (just to be clear)

Not all of us are young enough to pursue a legacy job (again).

The lost decade was a drag on airline careers. To your point though, If I were in my late 20s or early 30s and looking at the retirements coming at the legacies, that's probably where I would direct my job search energies. you are right.

Given that I am not though, I think it's worth saying that there is nothing dishonorable about being a first officer. Still a pilot, paid a decent salary to do something that we all love to do and get plenty of time off.

No pilot wants to retire an FO. But as we all know, fate is the hunter. If that is what happens then i'll be happy to have been gainfully employed flying airplanes for a long time. Won't be able to afford 2 boats, 3 airplanes, and a 50 acre ranch with separate houses for my four wives and a shed to house all of my belt buckles... guess I'll have to settle for a small house in a nice neighborhood and hopefully a good school for my kid.

Hopefully one day I'll get to visit all of those far away romantic international destinations, but I'm happy to do it on vacation with my family. In the meantime, Amarillo isn't so bad. At least it's close to home.

 

[BILL LUMBERG]

Not all of us paid for our type. (just to be clear)

Not all of us are young enough to pursue a legacy job (again).

The lost decade was a drag on airline careers. To your point though, If I were in my late 20s or early 30s and looking at the retirements coming at the legacies, that's probably where I would direct my job search energies. you are right.

Given that I am not though, I think it's worth saying that there is nothing dishonorable about being a first officer. Still a pilot, paid a decent salary to do something that we all love to do and get plenty of time off.

No pilot wants to retire an FO. But as we all know, fate is the hunter. If that is what happens then i'll be happy to have been gainfully employed flying airplanes for a long time. Won't be able to afford 2 boats, 3 airplanes, and a 50 acre ranch with separate houses for my four wives and a shed to house all of my belt buckles... guess I'll have to settle for a small house in a nice neighborhood and hopefully a good school for my kid.

Hopefully one day I'll get to visit all of those far away romantic international destinations, but I'm happy to do it on vacation with my family. In the meantime, Amarillo isn't so bad. At least it's close to home.

Well Said....Cheers:beer:

 

[General Lee]

Not all of us paid for our type. (just to be clear)

Not all of us are young enough to pursue a legacy job (again).

The lost decade was a drag on airline careers. To your point though, If I were in my late 20s or early 30s and looking at the retirements coming at the legacies, that's probably where I would direct my job search energies. you are right.

Given that I am not though, I think it's worth saying that there is nothing dishonorable about being a first officer. Still a pilot, paid a decent salary to do something that we all love to do and get plenty of time off.

No pilot wants to retire an FO. But as we all know, fate is the hunter. If that is what happens then i'll be happy to have been gainfully employed flying airplanes for a long time. Won't be able to afford 2 boats, 3 airplanes, and a 50 acre ranch with separate houses for my four wives and a shed to house all of my belt buckles... guess I'll have to settle for a small house in a nice neighborhood and hopefully a good school for my kid.

Hopefully one day I'll get to visit all of those far away romantic international destinations, but I'm happy to do it on vacation with my family. In the meantime, Amarillo isn't so bad. At least it's close to home.

I hear what you are saying. Notice I did say all "non type rated" pilots. I also think most of the future applicants will have to buy a type, primarily because fewer will leave the big 3 for SWA due to the huge retirement numbers.

DL hopefully will pay for ALL of the newhire lodging (which is in the new Contract survey for pilots, whether or not to negotiate for that), and I hope SWA dumps the pay for type if you don't have it policy. Both changes would be better for incoming pilots at both airlines.



Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[maru657]

Another scenerio, a political party with less than cordial relations towards labor wins the senate and then the White House. I suspect they'll break a few unions, simply to save face.

 

[Mercyful Fate]

INTL hotels have wifi, and after a good dinner or in the lobby prior to pick up, there's always time to glance and then laugh at FI....


Bye Bye---General Lee

Out non-reving again I see....