Originally Posted by Request20Right

This Elliot news comes at a weird time for me. I just hit my year mark here at Southwest. I’m stoked to be settling in, making year 2 pay, and I am 58% in base (have 1400 people underneath me in the company so 88% company seniority), driving to work. I do have a class date at United on 7/23. I had applied to UAL last year and delayed because I wanted to see how the contract was going to shake out, and I ended up getting the job offer after going to the interview in January. The delays at United with Boeing pushed the class date back until now, and I only found out about two weeks ago that it would be in July.


This has coincided with this Elliot news, and is really having me scratch my head if staying is going to be a bad move. I do not think that Elliot's main goal is the long term success of the ariline and I fear that they don’t have a plan to turn things around. Of course this is speculation but if they sell off the aircraft to create cash, set up a leaseback program to lease the airplanes back to Southwest, and do stock buybacks, this will undermine our strong cash reserves. This may ultimately liquidate the company of their money.


Over the past week, I have come to the determination that the only reason I would leave is to get the chance to chase other aircraft. But to be honest, I don’t care for widebody international flying at UAL. The grass isn't greener I'm learning. I see some of my friend's schedules and I prefer the our schedule flexibility and vacation, and everything here at Southwest. I get more days off a month than my friends at UAL flying the 737. So my MO currently is to stay, but I am unsure about the future and if I am ignorant to what is coming towards Southwest. Of course nobody has a crystal ball, but I'm wondering if I'll regret turning down my UAL start date once we learn more about Elliot's motives and what it will do the company.