Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

I’ve been listening to “The SWAPA Number” podcast which is put out by the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association. This week’s episode (Monday, August 22nd - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-swapa-number-49070009/) focused on Bob Jordan, labor-management relations, and culture. Unsurprisingly Ca...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

The focus switched from the employees to the shareholders. The culture lingo used to be “if you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your customers” or something to that effect. Now, customer service, operations, and ramp staff are constantly being assigned mandatory overtime (zero wor...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

I’ve been listening to “The SWAPA Number” podcast which is put out by the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association. This week’s episode (Monday, August 22nd - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-swapa-number-49070009/) focused on Bob Jordan, labor-management relations, and culture. Unsurprisingly Ca...

Re: WN 2nd Qtr Profit

william wrote:

Impressive since they made and been making substantial profits doing things the SWA way to the chagrin and dismay of Anet.

Re: Is SAN using outdoor air stairs to board pax?

I just dropped my friend off at the airport in San Diego. I know they're in the process of creating the new Terminal 1 and on the way back, I was able to see the degree to which construction has progressed. It looked like the entirety of the East part is gone. In its place, I saw aircraft lined up ...

Re: 737 NO FLAP landing @ SEA

Witnessed a no flaps (LE slats only?) landing for the first time last week. Diverted from OGG to HNL. It was ultimately a non-event, these things happen. But I was struck by how noticeably fast it was on final. An inconvenience for the airline and passengers but interesting to see first-hand.

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

Given how much the union would complain about an airline trying to break work rules, it strikes me that the airlines are (mostly) staying within the rules that the pilots' contracts themselves allow. And that means that the pilots and the unions have missed the mark in the complete set of rules tha...

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

Nobody cares about the pilots either if their flights are not affected. They are not leading a charge for anyone. Customers are being affected! That’s what this is all about. It’s no secret that the over promised, under-delivered schedules are negatively impacting the traveling public. Again, this ...

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

Everything you listed applies 10x to other airline employees too, especially FAs, and with less rest and a fraction of the pay. Always amuses me when Pilots attempt to get the general public to feel sorry for them. Nobody cares when most airline employees are upset at working conditions. When pilot...

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

How many signs held by SWAPA yesterday were exclusively about pilots and their pay/needs?

Want to talk about entitlement? Start with the attitudes shown here. I’ll never understand why aviation enthusiasts on an aviation forum love to consistently crap on airlines and their employees.

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

I'm sorry, but 1) aren't pilots pretty darned well compensated already? 2) don't union contracts already specify work rules with repercussions for employers who breach them? What am I missing here? Much of the thread apparently. Here you go… Alaska, AA, Delta, SWA. All contracts with the unions are...

Re: Pilots' open letters to the public & picketing at airports

In the airline industry, as it currently stands, airlines are squeezing every last drop out of pilots. Worked to the max. They're exhausted. Everything you listed applies 10x to other airline employees too, especially FAs, and with less rest and a fraction of the pay. Always amuses me when Pilots a...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

All I know is they visited HNL and LIH and I think Bob was with them. It wasn't for nothing, something must be in play. They also visited OGG and ITO so I assume they’re checking up on them all. Bob comes in next week. Maybe more nonstops coming well we know there will be but the max 7 probably has...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Anybody here any thing I heard that 4 WN high level people are in HNL and Bob Jordan is arriving next week. Wonder what’s up ? All I know is they visited HNL and LIH and I think Bob was with them. It wasn't for nothing, something must be in play. They also visited OGG and ITO so I assume they’re ch...

Re: Speedtapefilms Awesome YouTube channel with Cargo Conversion/Ferry Flight Documentary

I agree, great follows on social media. With HNL being a common stopping point for them I’ve been able to see many of these flights so it’s cool to see it all documented from their perspective.

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Just noticed LGA-ICT direct is available for booking tomorrow. Is this new? If so, when did it start? WN has same-plane 1-stop service between LGA and ICT with a stop at STL, but no nonstop flights between LGA and ICT. Yep, you are correct. My travel agent site was showing it as a nonstop today but...

Re: Top Gun: Maverick

I was a kid when the original came out. Top Gun is deeply ingrained in my childhood. I wore out VHS after VHS. There was no internet. That movie was my access to Naval aviation, the F-14 and aircraft carrier ops. It all fascinated me, I couldn’t get enough. If I was lucky the nightly news might show...

Re: Tone-Deaf Watermarking

I have to wonder what principles the site uses in determining where to place a watermark The site doesn't use any principles. Watermark location, size, and strength are determined by the uploader (who is the photo copyright holder). After seeing this masterpiece of a photo nearly ruined by "AI...

Re: The consequences of crew and staff shortage in aviation - 2022 thread

Again..... The airlines can do all they want to hire pilots and flight attendants, they want. They are putting nothing into hiring maintenance. Without Maintenance...... Planes. Do. Not. Fly. Same goes for ground handling staff, pilots and FA's are good for doing the 'up-in-the-air' part, you still...

Re: Hawaiian Airlines interisland cancellations these past few days (April 14~)

How are Southwest’s 737-800 and 8MAX engines holding up doing interisland flights? Do they limit how many interisland flts they do before heading back to the West Coast? How much time do they allow for turnaround? After three years, they are holding up just fine - no issues. The aircraft rarely spe...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

airlinepeanuts wrote:

Where are all the people who've been on here trashing their intra-island service?

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

The inter-island increases are interesting, but looks like some pretty big cuts on mainland flying: *SAN-KOA/LIH/OGG remain out of the schedule *LAX/PHX-KOA/LIH and LGB/SMF-OGG are gone for Fall *LAX-HNL/OGG reduced to 1x *Looks like some Bay Area freq decreases as well I’d venture to guess that th...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

There’s no shortage of FA applicants. Attracting people to frontline ground positions is a problem in many cities. Yep especially with places like Amazon, UPS, and FX hiring like crazy, and often times not requiring you to drive way out of your way(like many airports often are) Not only this but pa...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Some other announcement on Thursday. Or it could and most likely is just a coincidence. For a bit it was changing between the 30th and 31st when I would look. I feel like they have had Tuesday and Wednesday releases in the past. Not sure it means anything. Extension related, I am curious to see whe...

Re: Will Smith assaults Chris Rock at the Oscars

LittleFokker wrote:

Bad joke by Rock? Sure, but not bad enough to deserve that reaction.

Re: JetBlue flight to Worcester stranded for 1 hour on tarmac...no ground agents at work.

Two thoughts: 1. I'm beginning to think this will become more prevalent, as the airlines aren't going to be able to get the staffing in a timely manner. Flights holding out for gates is nothing new and has been normal operations for at least the better part of the past 20 years. So common that my i...

Re: San Diego Aviation Thread - 2022