Originally Posted by
OscartheGrouch
Otto,
Nice post. Please check the reality that truly exists. First of all CAL is a LCC
who happens to go international and has different equipment to worship. LCC's where not the reason CAL destroyed the industry in the early 80's. B-scale, lower wages, the use of smaller (oh yes even smaller than the lowly 737) planes with even lower wages are just a few of the things that we can all thank CAL for.
If a carrier has been through bankruptcy they have lost all claims to be the answer to our dreams (CAL of late seems to be pretty haughty). Please don't blame the competition for business models that don't allow you and other employee groups to have the highest pay/benefits.
Lest one of the freight folks chimes in (and some of them are a bit haughty also) I think the folks here at SWA have some improvements to make. We are just bus drivers and we are no different than you. If you don't believe me than ask yourself this question, "would anyone here at XYZ airline miss me if I did not show up for work?" I think not.
You're not serious are you? How many LCC's do you see flying B777's on 16 hour routes for $99? How many do you see flying around with $5000 fares? As for thanking CAL, how about thanking SWA for undercutting everyone (try USAirways out of PHL for instance) and driving everyone out of town? B scale wages were the brainchild of Crandall at AMR, thank you very much, NOT CAL as you eloquently point out. I have a lot of friends that work at SWA, but you ARE different than us. As Gordon so eloquently put it one day:
"you can fly CAL and SWA to Paris. Us to Paris, France, them to Paris, TX". Sorry, but your argument is full of holes...............