Originally Posted by
Smokey23
Unlike many of Delta's finest around here, as a SWA guy I try to limit my participation in another airline's sandbox to the occasional lurk. But I gotta say, some of the comments about SWA's recent press release sure have a...
....tone to them.
Relax. The ATL market is plenty big for the both of us!
Like Gloopy says, I don't Delta was that worried when SWA bought Airtran. Good for everyone I think.
What I think many on this board annoyance with the SWA press release was the general "wow - look at us, 3 whole flights from ATL to MCI! We're going to knock it out of the park" hype when in reality it's adjusting the flight times for a few of Airtran flights (3) against Delta's (7) while SWA is dropping a fair amount of service out of ATL - service that was made possible by connecting pax.
And SWA implies they are the country's savior from those "nasty old school airlines". SWA needs to look in the mirror...
And then the treatment of the Airtran employees (pilots in particular) does not, in my opinion, follow the basic tenets of Southwest.
Can Southwest pilots honestly say they were following these when they merged the Airtran pilot:
- Follow The Golden Rule
- Adhere to the Principles
- Treat others with respect
- Put others first
- Be egalitarian
- Demonstrate proactive
- Customer Service
- Embrace the SWA Family