Originally Posted by
sailingfun
SWA is doing great financially. They pay industry standard or better rates. They are very profitable. Breeze is burning cash like a pile of gasoline soaked rags. This is in the highest revenue environment airlines have ever seen. At some point the investors will demand results.
Doing well financially?! Uh, I work there and witness the dysfunction and gross mismanagement every time I go to work.
Our Christmas meltdown cost us $1.2 billion dollars because of those reasons. We are not lighting the world on fire like we used to.
There are issues with brackets on the Max 7 and we just had a Max 8 dump into BDL because of “severe airframe vibration” which persisted on the subsequent test flight after it was “fixed”.
SWA has enough money to bleed for quite a while but it is not on a confidence building trajectory. As for the Max 7…..something’s up and it smells fishy. Should’ve gotten the A220 but of course for our management that would’ve been like putting the Space Shuttle into service as they are pathetically inept and 737-focused.