Originally Posted by O2pilot (Post 2650859)

Flying to Redding, Baton Rouge, Devil’s Lake, Eureka, Harlingen, etc and the 100+ small cities that United Express flies to it doesn’t make sense to fly a 150 seat Airbus into it totally smart to codeshare to those cities. Those passengers feed our mainline and allow us to be paid to fly 777s to Paris, Auckland, Sydney, London, etc. I’d trade 76 and smaller seat jets to be able to fly 777/787/767 etc all over the world. Its a fair trade off. Global airlines need the network effect of that feed. Big regionals or LCCs don’t.

Originally Posted by O2pilot (Post 2650859)

Flying to Redding, Baton Rouge, Devil’s Lake, Eureka, Harlingen, etc and the 100+ small cities that United Express flies to it doesn’t make sense to fly a 150 seat Airbus into it totally smart to codeshare to those cities. Those passengers feed our mainline and allow us to be paid to fly 777s to Paris, Auckland, Sydney, London, etc. I’d trade 76 and smaller seat jets to be able to fly 777/787/767 etc all over the world. Its a fair trade off. Global airlines need the network effect of that feed. Big regionals or LCCs don’t.

Originally Posted by O2pilot (Post 2650859)

Flying to Redding, Baton Rouge, Devil’s Lake, Eureka, Harlingen, etc and the 100+ small cities that United Express flies to it doesn’t make sense to fly a 150 seat Airbus into it totally smart to codeshare to those cities. Those passengers feed our mainline and allow us to be paid to fly 777s to Paris, Auckland, Sydney, London, etc. I’d trade 76 and smaller seat jets to be able to fly 777/787/767 etc all over the world. Its a fair trade off. Global airlines need the network effect of that feed. Big regionals or LCCs don’t.

Originally Posted by BKbigfish (Post 2651040)

What percentage of mainline flying do you think is conducted by widebodies? Have we not learned anything in the past two decades? Who cares about 20,000 $125+/hr - $200+/hr gigs when you can ensure 1500 $300+/hr gigs for guys that have been on property for 20+ years amirite?!? That’s a lot of money we’re leaving on the table to make sure a small percentage of guys make an extra $50k - $100k per year.

Originally Posted by Beta82 (Post 2649546)

“the jet” is a very common term at SWA too. I’m thinking it’s because it’s a jet...

Originally Posted by Skyward (Post 2649706)

No, it’s because SWA is filled with kernels who have a hard time letting go of such things as their call signs, The Zoo, shooting down their wristwatch at the bar, and the term “the jet”.

Originally Posted by greatlake (Post 2649680)

Delta walked away when they thought regulators wouldn't allow a merger that big.

Originally Posted by Jetlife (Post 2649724)

It isn’t just grabbing at straws. The amount of MELs we are carrying are above and beyond from what we ever carried before. WiFi and pax comfort items are being left broken, in fact I have had a few 4 day trips where 50% of the airplanes have WiFi written up, and not just the sat wifi.



I’m not saying it’s a sign of being bought, to me it’s a sign of the Bus going away, but if there is an acquisition, we will look back at this and it will be obvious that something was going on in hind sight.



Taking down a bunch of planes at once to paint in any month seems silly. Postponing all aircraft painting for what, 6 months now, has put them on an even tighter schedule to get it done (don’t forget that there is a royalty fee and deadline to get this livery off the planes). Meanwhile 737s are going down every month to get decals applied and new paint jobs. I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all, but to me it clearly indicates something. What that something is, we won’t know until we see it on the news.