Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
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.
The A220 is not exactly a great aircraft for Delta. I believe it’s dispatch reliability is the lowest of all the fleets. SWA is having issues however every airline has its turn in the barrel. SWA will be just fine. The one thing that kills airlines is lack of capital. SWA is in great shape in that regard.