Originally Posted by
oldboyroy
I would guarantee you could have just as good or better QOL at a Legacy airline…..IF you lived in base and drive to work…with their massive retirements and under 5 years to upgrade….why come here?. I was in your same shoes back in 2017. Same age and retirement and I came to SWA. I would only recommend coming to SWA if you can live in base. Do not come here and commute across the country…we don’t have the best commuter rules.
To add on to this, major selling points that SWA *had* was financial stability and the "We have never furloughed" mantra.
Southwest management JDAM'd the second selling point on 12/3/20 with the WARN notices that were sent out just in time for Christmas. They sent the 4 emails from 4 different VP's of something in the HQ on 12/3/20 and a hard copy arrived in the mailbox ~10 days later, just in time to ruin Christmas. Legally they were required to notify 60 days prior to the furlough date. They sent them 120 days prior to the anticipated furlough dates of early April 2021. Catastrophically poor strategic decision on SWA management's part.
Hindsight is 2020. I wonder if the management team wishes they had kept those WARN notices locked up in a drawer somewhere as much as I wish I had kept updating FedEx and the Legacy apps.