Re: WN sending out WARN Notices

Sad day but I’m hopeful. As a 14 year employee and along with others Have volunteered to take the 18 month furlough earlier this year to help mitigate the current circumstances. I feel SWA played this wrong from the beginning of COVID crisis. They decided to implemented cost saving measures from a t...

Re: Southwest Furloughs

you will not see ANY union agree to any sort of concessions from their groups. That is the unfortunate truth. It literally takes years or even decades for any improvements. Heck, the FAs are working within the same contract from 2008 with extensions and no improvements, and it's 2020 today. Unless ...

Re: Southwest Furloughs

I’ve been on voluntary leave since May. I will also take the additional 18 month leave offered. I’m blessed to do my personal part. 10+ plus years with WN. I think WN is in the strongest position to survive. I’m very hopeful we will be okay. pay cuts and concessions won’t pass with the majority of t...

Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2020

TIJ and SAN reminds me much like OAK and SFO. OAK has very limited int'l flights, but it is a WN focus city, with flights everywhere in the U.S. just like TIJ is a Volaris hub, (SFO has limited WN service, with all int'l service in the area.) Basically, you can't beat Volaris with so many Mexican d...

Re: Shouting vs Announcing Emergency Commands

In recurrent training, it has been focused to shout commands and not chant. Commands must be shouted clearly in order to get a passing grade from instructor. Commands also differ depending on conditions (fire, smoke, water, obstruction). Shouting commands is common in imminent emergency. Announcing ...

Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2019

One runway and limited airfield showed its constraints today. Complete hot mess operation this morning due to fog. Runway 9 was used for departures and arrivals until about 9am. Flights in T2 stacked and waited in alleyways for Runway 9 departures and the T2 Arrivals couldn’t get to the gate because...

Re: Hawaiian Residents Appear to Enjoy Having Southwest Competition

I’ve worked 20+ Inter-island flights as cabin crew since May. Locals are very thankful we are in the market and express gratitude to us EVERY leg. Island hopping is the easiest flying compared to the Texas two-step or California shuffle. Mostly leisure passengers and very high family travelers on th...

Re: Southwest starts Interisland service

A few observations from my first inter-island flying (2 RT's between OGG-HNL) - 4) The FA's managed the abbreviated service with little issue on those 20 minute flights. Cubsrule - The seniority definitely tends to be quite high on these trips. Do you mind me asking what is the abbreviated service?...

Re: Southwest starts Interisland service

A new promotion that has been creating a huge buzz on the islands the past few days is new valid Hawaiian address rapid reward accounts received 5,000 points just for signing up. Enough for a free roundtrip inter-island ticket at the $29 prices. It's smart marketing in trying to create goodwill and ...

Re: Southwest starts Interisland service

Observations working 4 island hop flights. I would do island hopping over the Texas two-step any day. Flight time is around 22-23 minutes (OGG-HNL-OGG-HNL-OGG) but SUPER easy service. Mostly locals on the flights, overwhelmingly many compliments and thanking us that WN has entered the market. The fo...

Re: Southwest starts Interisland service

I’m working the island hops today. Water or juice and pretzels if there’s time. Same aircraft with four legs. Some of schedules later in the month are 5 legs with the SJC startup. Apparently similar to working “HOU -AUS” said someone in Dallas

Re: SEA congestion INTL arrivals

I loved clearing customs in 5 minutes at PDX when I came back from Puerto Vallarta in January. I don't know too many airports in the US where it takes 5 minutes to clear customs. How long did it take to clear immigration, one hour? :duck: I think you mean both immigration and customs? Just out of c...

Re: Flight Attendants are Selling Their Seniority.

According to who? It looks like most of them top out at $60k-$70k for an average line. Now, sure, you can pickup trips and work some ungodly number of hours and maybe get close to that, but not on average. According to me. 12 year FA at one of the majors. Top out pay is $65 an hour. If I fly 100 ho...

Re: Flight Attendants are Selling Their Seniority

Seniority is everything and most people who take the job know that the basics of seniority, trading, swapping, dropping of schedules and shifts. This is industry standard and similar across ALL workgroups. From my experience, senior folks bid good trips, and those trips will be picked up free or sol...

Re: WN and Hawaii.

Is this really a thing? I've flown WN for decades and have never ever had an issue not being able to sit with friends or family. I suppose it can happen if folks are amongst the last to board...but that isn't a constant. If a half way concerted effort is made to sit with your friends or family...th...

Re: Updated: WN 8725 KOAK - PHNL She's on her way!

BWIAirport wrote:

When does N8329B head back? Flightradar24 doesn't have any filed flights until DAL-AUS tomorrow.

Re: WN adds free inflight movie streaming