Originally Posted by
PasserOGas
I think looking at how many are actually called and then leave is masking how many want to leave. If the big 3 started calling all the FOs with apps out how bad would attrition be? Saying we "only" lost 80 isn't telling the whole story is my point. We would be down A LOT more if everyone who wanted to leave could.
But we aren’t so while the theory is fun it’s not happening YET.
I have literally been hearing this for 6 years along with somone buying us. I think the biggest attrition number was around a year after I got hired when everyone was returning to their legacy.
Again you have a point but only numbers matter not guys saying they will leave. We shouldn’t have guys leaving but I know for a fact guys are even leaving SWA to go to other airlines. It’s just the hiring cycle with retirements and big planes it’s hard to compete exacerbated by our lack of a contract. One day the majors will stop hiring and we start our retirements and it will be ( if we get a good contract and are still around) why sit at the bottom of the list here when they have retirements. Round and round the cycle goes. This won’t be for 10 or so years but it will happen.
That is not a defense or endorsement of JetBlue btw.