Originally Posted by
JayDee
I think the point he was making is that VA should be allowed a few years. Once, say a five year period, has been reached then start looking at raising wages, qol, and the like.
He was making the correlation that TWA and PAN AM said the same thing about your beloved SWA when you first started up... SOOOO
Give them time, if a sufficient amount of time has passed and VA is still below the bar time to do something. Until then, sit back and leave it on auto pilot.
I wasn't slamming SWA, BTW. I fly SWA a lot and always get where I am going alive without soiling myself, which is a great outcome when hurtling through the air covered in thin aluminum at over 400 knots.
What I was saying was that SWA was not the pax industry standard for quite some time after their inception. To lambaste VA is akin to lambasting the pilots that flew and built SWA to make it what you now enjoy. Also, SWA did not brag about this stuff that we know of, but Al Gore did not invent the commercially viable interweb until 20+ years after SWA's start - so that is not really an apples to apples either. I am simply saying that criticism of a LCC would be less ironic from a legacy guy than it is from a guy flying for an airline that created the LCC niche in the first place.
Again - much love and kudos to SWA - I fly them a lot and admire Herb and the service I get on the flights.