Originally Posted by
swimheiss
As a former Midwest customer, I will miss the service and quality of experience that I received while flying with Midwest. For a premium of about 30% over comparable coach arrangements, I was able to consistently experience a first class flight with first-class accommodations.
As much as I will miss flying with the former Midwest Airlines, please do not expect me or people like me to be dumb enough to hang on to the brand out of nostalgia. Unless the aircraft, flight crews, and seating arrangements are brought back, consider the brand dead.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Now I know some of you who are reading this are current RAH pilots and may be deeply offended, but rather than giving me a nasty reply, lets see you suck it up and fight your management to let the MEH pilots into your seniority list with wages that are at least within range of what they previously received. If not, then lobby really hard to eliminate everything that says "Midwest" on every plane, in every terminal, and on every piece of marketing. There is little room for middle ground on this.
I apologize in advance for my tone, and thank you for your time.
Perhaps what needs to be done is a grass-roots effort by the Milwaukee populace to boycott Midwest as personified by RAH. Most of the former Midwest pilots and employees are your friends, neighbors, fellow Milwaukee citizens, and tax payers. The former Midwest was true gem and local brand to be proud of.
Unless the former employees get to be part of the "new" Midwest I would advocate a movement to not give them your business. One could make the claim that other airlines were not that to begin with so what's the difference? The difference is that they are not essentially foreigners capitalizing on the reputation of a "local" brand.
Either let them compete as their own brand against other out-of-town'ers, hire the former employees as you propose, or don't give them your business.