5/2020 bid
12-17-2019, 01:35 PM
#101
Line Holder
Joined APC: Mar 2019
Position: Line bidding sucks!
Posts: 96
Originally Posted by Flyboy8784
The big question is.....how long can an airline with exponential growth planned like SWA hold out for before they consider scooping us up?
12-17-2019, 02:23 PM
#104
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2019
Posts: 414
Originally Posted by VanDriver208
Yea...this might get interesting. Good luck everyone, keep your apps up to date.
12-18-2019, 06:20 AM
#107
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 39,439
Originally Posted by Texasbound
That can't happen anymore, unless you agree to it.
Also AS is too big, couldn't hire and train pilots fast enough, and couldn't afford to buy AS and then park it while they slowly assimilate the assets.
While the SW pilots would be happy to spend billions of the shareholders money to pull of an end-run SLI staple job, their managers wouldn't, nor would their BoD or shareholders let them. The SW pilots would just have to live with a likely arbitrated SLI, per established precedent. Management doesn't care about their pilots THAT much.
Also AS has got to have successorship scope???
12-19-2019, 05:02 AM
#110
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Originally Posted by Packrat
Ask an ex-Trannie how the SWA SLI philosophy is applied.
My premise is that AS is to big (and expensive in this context) to liquidate... for the sole purpose of doing an end-run around Mccaskil-Bond just to give SW pilots an upper-hand (staple) in an SLI. Don't think SW management cares that much about how senior their legacy pilots are.
Presumably SW wanted to ditch the tranny 717's anyway. In the case of AS, *presumably* part of their intent would be to acquire a small-ish airbus subfleet to try it out for a while with an eye towards long-term diversification. If the max crashes had happened 5-8 years from now and grounded the majority of SW's fleet for 1+ years, they would be SOL (or at least in need of a big federal bailout).
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