Originally Posted by e6bpilot

That was all about the author's emotional attachment to ATL. He came from the AT side of the house. They gave them free voluntary moves and coddled them in comms, apologizing heavily, then proceeded to gut Denver Nanking style.

I hung on to DEN thinking the cuts were done and then got the Oct vacancy and left on my own accord. I wish I would have just pulled the plug earlier so I could have bid vaca in my new base.

If I had a paid move, I probably would have exercised it, but I am too senior to get displaced and DEN didn't get the voluntary option. It's a great base, especially if you like to play the game. Solid people and great chief pilots. SWA just soured on building it up with personnel. It's biting them in the ass right now anytime weather rolls through as they don't have as many crews in place there.

Such is life in the airline game, though. The only constant is change. As someone said above, if you told me 10 years ago that you could hold Orlando and BWI before OAK, I would have been like "sure, Jan."