Us vs. Them

[Widow's Son]

I think that the majority of the pilots at both SWA and AirTran are anxious to get the melding out of the way and get on with life. We know that as line slime it is out of our hands and we can't see much value in getting worked up over what we can't control.

What is interesting in watching the kavetching minorities on both sides on both public and private forums, is seeing how much alike they are even though they are, for now, on opposite sides.

Those who are screaming and pointing at the other side would be doing and saying the exact same things if their roles were reversed.

It is funny to watch guys on one thread blast the other side for speaking up and not just sitting quiet and taking whatever they are given and then a couple of threads later, blasting their own for being too much like sheep and accepting something without speaking up.

The radical fringes on both sides are birds of a feather.

 

[waveflyer]

Word
+1

 

[PSL]

It's not surprising that tensions are high; on both sides.

Absent the seemingly ok merger between DAL and NWA, the vast majority of mergers/acquisitions have not produced the economies of scale which were envisioned and left both pilot groups fuming after the fact.

2011 will not be boring by any standards given what has been placed in motion by SWA's acquisition of AAI.

 

[waveflyer]

Yeah- but most mergers are really about a handful at the top milking it while their counterparts float away in golden parachutes-- that's not this- there was a lot of feelings in NW/DL too before the list came out- and that's how this'll be.

The future's too good-
Just keep out any self fulfilling negativity- that's the average line guys job

 

[RIDETHELIGHTING]

Rock on!!!

 

[carl p]

fo shizzle

 

[scoreboardII]

what, group synergy? Heresy I say!

 

[Quimby]

Stay classy San Diego

 

[waveflyer]

Discovered by the German's in 1904

 

[Quimby]

Synergy = someone's getting screwed