SWA today like the airline in the book, "Nuts!"?

[Ty Webb]

Thanks, Hal. Sorry it worked out that way. ATA was a great airline. I had an application mostly filled out when I got hired at AirTran . . . If it wasn't for those damn essay questions, I might have witnessed the end with you, or at least the beginning of the end.

 

[Whine Lover]

Hal's assessment of the situation, past and present, is pretty much spot on.

I was fortunate after ATA's demise but, I have witnessed some pretty nasty stuff that many of my friends (and their families) have gone through just to keep fighting and living another day in this business over the last 5 years.

In the words of The Great M. Jagger - " You can't always get what you want... But, if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need."

Be thankful for what you have while still recognizing those who have truly wronged you....and that wouldn't be SWA.

It would be those among your own who thought themselves to be so above the people that they represented that they didn't allow ( until it was too late ) that constituency a say in the direction their lives have now taken.

I'm just sayin' ....


YKW

 

[islandhoper]

Be thankful for what you have while still recognizing those who have truly wronged you....and that wouldn't be SWA.

I disagree. Our lidership mismanaged, but the offer together with the threats came from SWA.

 

[madjack]

Long live the uprising!!

 

[Whine Lover]

"...the threats came from SWA."

I am only a bystander watching from the outside (although my Brother is an AT Captain so I get pretty good feedback from him ) .

Can you refresh me on the "threats" from Southwest?

IIRC, the only "threat" was a promise that the first offer was the best offer and that any other offers would not be as good.

In other words, SWA was trying to do the most expeditious and easiest thing and did not care to negotiate so they gave their actual best offer right off the bat.

Your MEC perceived this as a "threat" and instead of letting the membership decide, they took it upon themselves to say, effectively, "What else ya' got?"

SWA then held up to their word...and did as they promised.

???

Whine

 

[Ty Webb]

Whine, obviously you and your brother don't talk very much, at least not about this deal. Give him a call and ask him why 85% of his coworkers voted for it.

 

[Whine Lover]

They voted on the Second Offer correct?

There was no vote on GK's first offer, which was turned down by the MEC.

Am I not correct regarding these statements?


Thanks,

Whine

 

[dicko]

They voted on the Second Offer correct?

There was no vote on GK's first offer, which was turned down by the MEC.

Am I not correct regarding these statements?


Thanks,

Whine

Funny. You, your brother and I had beers at Spondivits many years ago. You need to change your name to 'Beer lover'. Yeah, I know. You don't remember

 

[madjack]

I heard Spondivits is great!

 

[tankerhead]

Funny. You, your brother and I had beers at Spondivits many years ago. You need to change your name to 'Beer lover'. Yeah, I know. You don't remember

Did you chloroform him?

 

[Herkdrv]

I heard Spondivits is great!

Oh yeah a must if you have an ATL layover!!!!!! :beer:

 

[dicko]

Did you chloroform him?

My god man ! Chloroform ? This isn't the 1950s.

 

[humveedriver]

Oh yeah a must if you have an ATL layover!!!!!! :beer:

The Irish Bred Pub is another option too. It's new, Spondivits is sort of a landmark. Between the two, there is no reason you should be sober.

 

[canyonblue]

I heard Spondivits is great!

Too bad the name gives me visions of "Sprockets".

 

[redflyer65]

"Now is ze time on Sprockets vhen ve dance!"