Originally Posted by
450knotOffice
I’ve mentioned this before in another thread in the SWA sub forum. Some of the folks in the SWA thread are gloating over the fact that their competitors, the “Big 3”, are going to have a very difficult time over the next few years. There are tens of thousands of your fellow aviators over at the Big 3 who may/will be devastated by this. To gloat over that fact is absolutely classless.
Not to mention, as I posted before, a decimated legacies may provide for more "market share" for SWA, but the market (and by extension pay/benefits) will be severely degraded for years with many on the street. CBA's will be forced to compete with even new upstarts that rise from the ashes (taken to it's extreme) and SWAPA will find itself competing for a CBA under increasingly depressed rates of pay and benefits.
Wishing for a devastated industry so that SWA can gain marketshare, IMO will be counterproductive to labor as thousands of well paid pilots would be ousted and eventually replaced with lower paid new LCC pilots.