Originally Posted by
terminal
It’s a bit naive to think that SWA wouldn’t furlough either. The further management becomes removed from Herb, the more likely it becomes.
That being said if the choice is commuting vs non-commuting, always go with not commuting. If you’re not commuting, don’t care about upgrade times or flying to Europe, and are willing to hustle, SWA is a great place.
There are several quality of life items that UA has that SWA does not, but if you live in base and work it so you only do turns and two day trips, then those QOL items become a moot point.
(And by hustle, I don’t necessarily mean work every day, I mean work the system to your advantage -a lot of TTGA, ELITT, finagling etc)
All things being equal though? I would choose a legacy over SWA any day of the week....mainly because of QOL items (hotels, meals, paid parking, reserve rules, etc) the one thing SWA beats on is scheduling finagling.
A 737 UA w-hore won’t make as much money as an open time SWA w-hore , but at UA you don’t have to hustle to make more cash because you can just go to a bigger plane...
At SWA you cant make 20k a month working nine days in the right seat of a 777 either.
There’s always a tradefoff.
I’m not naive. When Kim J decides to launch a nuke, or Some terrorist group decides to go after aviation again, or maybe just a good old fashioned recession, the Big 3 will furlough and go into survival mode. History shows the smaller airlines will take advantage of this and grow. What’s stopping a terrorist group from recruiting a 100 Dunkn Donuts employees to try and get hired as flight attendants in order to access airplanes via KCM. We’re sitting ducks and it’s only a matter of time. There are so many security loop holes in aviation. I think that it is you “Terminal”who is naive. Just sayin....what disturbs me the most about your post is that you list crew meals as a benefit, seriously? Besides, it sounds like you make 20k a month working 9 days....I’d hope you could afford to eat a little healthier! Something else to think about is that because Legacy carriers have multiple aircraft types, they can park an entire fleet overnight. We’ve done it!