Originally Posted by
flyguy81
I didn’t think AW was on the chopping block. Everyone else was though. They wanted people who had worked elsewhere and weren’t institutionalized SWA employees for 30 years. I think Tom Nealon and AW would be a good #1/2. I don’t know enough about Tammy Romo other than her emails 4x/yr to have an idea over whether or not she needs to take a hike.
We need to cut VP’s like crazy and trim HDQ of the excess personnel that have nothing to do with running a profitable airline.
I am far from smart on anything higher than my lowly station as a little cog in this machine, but I felt Elliot specifically highlighted AW in their power point presentation as one of the few (if not only) execs who had any airline experience outside of SWA. I took that to mean they wanted to keep him versus other people. I may be wrong, and that is definitely a possibility but I thought AW is the heir apparent for taking the helm.
The upcoming 'OPs Day' will be very interesting for me. I am curious to see the tone from certain HDQ people versus the last few times I was there where they were 'independently' educating us on the
management '
common sense side' of things vs. the mean/nasty SWAPA side of contract negotiations. Are we all one big family again?!