The Fate of SWA

[Bake]

I have been on FI.com for at least 9 years (moderators, feel free to correct me). For those approx 9 years I have been reading how SWA is just around the corner from BK and total failure. Since that time SWA has hired approx 3000 pilots and purchased over 200 airplanes (low ball guestimates on my part). We do still go to LBB General, and you are right it is no garden spot, but I've been laid a few times in LBB and also overseas and I must say, I can't tell the difference, both were pretty good. Anyway, for how much longer can SWA keep going? We have been predicting their demise for years on here and they still keep humping it like the energizer bunny, much like the ladies of LBB.

Bake

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Oh look, another southwest thread.........................Yawn!

 

[CA Calypso]

Oh look, another southwest thread.........................Yawn!

Didn't take you long to join it...

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Didn't take you long to join it...

Like I said..............YAWN!

 

[FlyinGuy]

If we are anything like the other majors, I think we have to do a couple of things first:

1. burn through about 2B cash.
2. file for BK
3. come out of BK
4. take about 2 years and go back into BK
5. come out of BK
6. now discuss if SWA is going to be around for the future.


Seems to me like this is a dead thread......

 

[CesnaCaptn]

I have been on FI.com for at least 9 years (moderators, feel free to correct me). For those approx 9 years I have been reading how SWA is just around the corner from BK and total failure. Since that time SWA has hired approx 3000 pilots and purchased over 200 airplanes (low ball guestimates on my part). We do still go to LBB General, and you are right it is no garden spot, but I've been laid a few times in LBB and also overseas and I must say, I can't tell the difference, both were pretty good. Anyway, for how much longer can SWA keep going? We have been predicting their demise for years on here and they still keep humping it like the energizer bunny, much like the ladies of LBB.

Bake

Do you mind quoting some of these posts that predicted SWA demise? There are many reasons to poke fun at SWA, but their financial stats have never been one of them.

 

[Cometman]

Do you mind quoting some of these posts that predicted SWA demise? There are many reasons to poke fun at SWA, but their financial stats have never been one of them.

Why don't you name the many reasons to poke fun at SWA. It would interesting to hear what you have to say. Don't start with LBB and pay for training crap. That is old news.

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

Is this just a thread started by a SWA guy hoping everyone pats him on the back for getting hired there?

 

[Fubijaakr]

LUV isn't going anywhere. They'll always be the domestic alternative to the big "INTERNATIONAL" trunk carrier. Someone has to serve the little guy who just wants to go from LIT to SMF and not spend a fortune. LUV has a niche that the "big guys" don't really want to serve anyway.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

LUV isn't going anywhere. They'll always be the domestic alternative to the big "INTERNATIONAL" trunk carrier. Someone has to serve the little guy who just wants to go from LIT to SMF and not spend a fortune. LUV has a niche that the "big guys" don't really want to serve anyway.

Oh really? Then why is that niche changing?
BOS, PHL, LGA........................ All cities southwest avoided years prior.
Sounds like their niche has hit a brick wall!
I'll agree that southwest isn't going anywhere.
And yes, it's fun to pick on southwest pilots.

 

[Fubijaakr]

Nope. They're filling voids. That's what LUV has always done.

Disclaimer: I am not, nor ever have been, a LUV pilot.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

Nope. They're filling voids. That's what LUV has always done.

Disclaimer: I am not, nor ever have been, a LUV pilot.

Filling voids???
In slot controlled LGA.
Delay prone PHL/BOS?
Um, yeah, right!
They avoided places like that like the plague in the past.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The number one rule in free markets is growth... you've got to grow to keep cost down.....

Will SWA still be able to grow beyond CONUS? They've been trying to tap code shares....


What is the plan?

 

[CesnaCaptn]

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Why don't you name the many reasons to poke fun at SWA. It would interesting to hear what you have to say. Don't start with LBB and pay for training crap. That is old news.

Are you being a little sensitive? I was refuting the OP's premise. There are reasons to make fun of most airlines--most of which are repeated on this site ad nauseum. I don't really have anything new to add.

 

[eaglesview]

If we are anything like the other majors, I think we have to do a couple of things first:

1. burn through about 2B cash.
2. file for BK
3. come out of BK
4. take about 2 years and go back into BK
5. come out of BK
6. now discuss if SWA is going to be around for the future.


Seems to me like this is a dead thread......

You forgot about the mergers.

 

[kwick]

If spirit goes on strike maybe
Southwest could buy them and
get their international routes and
slots at Lga and Dca.

Could they buy them and not
take the pilots?

 

[Kharma Police]

If spirit goes on strike maybe
Southwest could buy them and
get their international routes and
slots at Lga and Dca.

Could they buy them and not
take the pilots?

Spirit is a privately held company so they could probably get away with selling slots and routes without the employees. Southwest would of course offer "preferential interviews" like they did with ATA to placate the politicians.

 

[CaptSeth]

I think I am going to VOMIT.

 

[dicko]

Oh really? Then why is that niche changing?
BOS, PHL, LGA........................ All cities southwest avoided years prior.
Sounds like their niche has hit a brick wall!
I'll agree that southwest isn't going anywhere.
And yes, it's fun to pick on southwest pilots.

Hey Bud,

Nice to meet you. You are the only person that I have ever put on an ignore list .... Ever.

Congratulations. You're boring and creepy.

Buh Bye :laugh:

 

[Capt. Qdoba]

You forgot about the mergers.

And giving away a lot of the flying to the regionals.