Red loves to forget that he and his airline are already outsourcing to cheaper pilots, the AT guys, on the SAME SIZE PLANE.....(737). How in the heck did they not get the same rate for the same plane? Oh, that's right, the deal somehow kicked EVERY AirTran 737 Captain out of their seats...... Nice poop sandwich that was, and great for merger morale.....
Oh and Red, you don't have ZERO outsourcing, you still send every SWA passenger going from MDW, OAK, and LAS to Mexico City and Guadalajara on your pals at Volaris. You must have forgotten about that. Maybe one too many intra Texas turns for you........
the SWA crew was willing to work for less than the going rate for YEARS, which is one thing. But then ********************t1ng on dal pilots for being "sellouts"?? It makes no sense. Watch what spirit does to SWA in the next 20 years. sad, but wait til spirit guys are mocking SWA guys for making concessions to swa management to save their jobs.
What goes around comes around.
It really is ironic that SWA has had a few years of their pilots finally at the top end of compensation after most of it's existence they were undercutting the rest of the industry as they grew their market share.
The legacy pay rates came under attack for a lot of reasons, but one of them was, in fact, the LCC's that had lower paid pilots and the carrier's that were not saddled with expensive retirement plans. I.E. SWA.
I'm not throwing stones at you SWA folks, I flew for PeopleExpress at one time. My point is we all live in glass houses and you can't start calling another pilot group "sellouts" without being guilty of hypocrisy.
Something to ponder, the SWA folks on here seem to love to boast about no RJ's or codesharing allowed. Does it ever concern you that your business model of domestic 737 flying may have matured and if you want to grow into new markets you may actually NEED codesharing and regional feed to do it? For instance, it doesn't look like you'll be coming to Hawaii anytime soon, but if you did, you would be competing with Alaska head to head with 737's. They have Horizon and DAL codesharing for feed. SWA would not and as Allegiant proved and everyone else who has tried before them has also failed, you can't break into the Hawaii market just with cheap fares.