Will The AirTran Pilots' Windfall Be A Consideration?

[Tanker Clown]

FYI for the most part every airline pilot thinks they and their airline is the best.

But you guys are talking about Air Tran. They pay crap. Are basically a stepping stone airline...or a career for a guy who can't get hired at a real airline. If I had a couple of DUIs, then hell yes I'd tell someone that I wanted to stay at Air Tran....because where else could I go? Hell, they had to buy the Air Tran name to escape their past. I don't even have and app in there. If SWA isn't hiring, then I'll go with Delta or Skywest or someone like that.

 

[GuppyWN]

I love that Tanker Clown guy. I think I'll put him on my buddy list.

Gup

 

[Ty Webb]

Pot and kettle. You guys are no better and probably quite a bit worse. Get down off that soapbox before you fall and hurt yourselves.

 

[Kharma Police]

Wow.

Ty,

If you really want to keep it civil you shouldn't spend so much time posturing. You have been an extremist from the outset:
- You have proposed outlandish SLI's
- You refuse to to acknowledge the boon this acquisition will mean for your career.
- You act like you are an authority on M+A law and that AGM only favors your view.

When someone posts relevant and factual case law your response is to call people names. When the argument doesn't go your way you say "our teams have asked us not to discuss the SLI", but that never stops you from arguing your point.

If you want to be civil I suggest a different tack. I would certainly welcome such a change.

If you don't like what he has to say then don't respond or put him on your ignore list. There are several guys that I tune out on this board. Maybe try watching football or get a new game for the crash pad X-Box.

The reality is that you SWA guys would miss him if he was gone. You would be forced to go back to trading tit for tats with the Delta boys. Even Tanker Clown has gotten bored with trying to throw feces at Delta. The fact is, you need your bad guy to justify your point of view, it's just human nature. But as I pointed out in a previous post, it's all just mental masturbation that will not affect the final outcome.

 

[GuppyWN]

I'll always be senior to you Ty. With or without an arbitrator.

The sooner you simply have fun by throwing your darts instead of taking it all too personally, the sooner you'll chillax. I'm good chunkin' or catchin' - darts that is.

Gup

 

[GuppyWN]

What Kharma said.

Gup

 

[Ty Webb]

I'll always be senior to you Ty. With or without an arbitrator.

The sooner you simply have fun by throwing your darts instead of taking it all too personally, the sooner you'll chillax. I'm good chunkin' or catchin' - darts that is.

Gup

I'll be fine, as usual.

Ty's a karate man, and a karate man bleeds on the inside.

 

[27 driver]

But you guys are talking about Air Tran. They pay crap. Are basically a stepping stone airline...or a career for a guy who can't get hired at a real airline. If I had a couple of DUIs, then hell yes I'd tell someone that I wanted to stay at Air Tran....because where else could I go? Hell, they had to buy the Air Tran name to escape their past. I don't even have and app in there. If SWA isn't hiring, then I'll go with Delta or Skywest or someone like that.

Just to add a little perspective. AAI is 17 years old. When SWA was 17 years old it was a steeping stone as well with bottom of the industry pay. Comparing the 2 just doesn't make sense. But fling mud at will it is entertaining.

 

[DonVerita]

But you guys are talking about Air Tran. They pay crap. Are basically a stepping stone airline...or a career for a guy who can't get hired at a real airline. If I had a couple of DUIs, then hell yes I'd tell someone that I wanted to stay at Air Tran....because where else could I go? Hell, they had to buy the Air Tran name to escape their past. I don't even have and app in there. If SWA isn't hiring, then I'll go with Delta or Skywest or someone like that.

Tanker Clown will never leave his big fish in a little pond position at PFT Gulfstream International. You think Delta or AirTran would hire a jackwagon like you? Think again. Go pre-flight your BE-1900 and try not to step in the oil pooling under each engine.

 

[Tanker Clown]

Just to add a little perspective. AAI is 17 years old. When SWA was 17 years old it was a steeping stone as well with bottom of the industry pay. Comparing the 2 just doesn't make sense. But fling mud at will it is entertaining.

You are right, you can't compare the two. You really can't compare the two. Continental and United is a merger of two equals. SWA + AT isn't that case. It's basically the airline everyone wants to be at + an airline who has adult jets but pays and treats its pilots like a regional jet outfit that people don't want to be at (or are trapped there due to poor resumes/skeletons). I think every SWA guy would tell you...and every Air Tran guy would privately admit, that this isn't a merger of equals.

I'm sure the arbitrator will see it this way and know that AT just won the lottery. I'm curious if he'll make you guys interview for a job. Seems only fair since a lot of guys there want to be at SWA, and have probably interviewed and been turned down. I just hope I get in before this whole thing goes down.