Originally Posted by
ExAF
Not a SWA lover here, and what you say about never raising the bar is true, but, how about you give them a little credit for continually plodding forward (and I'll add that it has been on the backs of everyone else's contracts) and not having to go into bankruptcy. Sometimes slow and steady wins the race.
Well I cannot argue with any of that, but their pilots had nothing to do with them not going into BK.. just like WE had nothing to do with US going into BK. They are a different animal than we are. domestic only... one a/c type.. you know the list... And I really don't think that you can compare the two with any real competent metric other than the fact that we both fly airplanes. But I do think the "slow and steady" M.O. of Herb Kelleher has had it's run... witness the NEED for the AT merger.. There is no more organic growth they can do to compete. And the junior guys over there are about to get a real healthy dose of reality.