Southwest Hiring Freeze?
#121
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Ha ha good one. It's a long shot, but Southwest buying Allegiant would be about eliminating competition. While you all have been off being a big 4 legacy carrier, the LCCs have been flying your old passengers around in increasing numbers. Frontier/spirit are too big to dispose of. Allegiant could go away tomorrow and few people would care. Management here has been focused on the resort business lately and seem disinterested in running an airline. I could see you guys buying allegiant and SY. Dispose of the Airbi, airtran the pilots. Then AS/Jetblue, and Frontier/Sprirt merge and the consolidation is complete.
#122
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Ha ha good one. It's a long shot, but Southwest buying Allegiant would be about eliminating competition. While you all have been off being a big 4 legacy carrier, the LCCs have been flying your old passengers around in increasing numbers. Frontier/spirit are too big to dispose of. Allegiant could go away tomorrow and few people would care. Management here has been focused on the resort business lately and seem disinterested in running an airline. I could see you guys buying allegiant and SY. Dispose of the Airbi, airtran the pilots. Then AS/Jetblue, and Frontier/Sprirt merge and the consolidation is complete.
I don’t see why SWA would want Allegiant. For what? They don’t have any valuable slots and why buy a bunch of Airbuses only to dispose of them.
Somebody is going to buy Spirit as they’ve become a thorn in the Big 4’s side. You can only grow and depress yields in places like DFW, BWI, ORD, LAS, FLL/MIA, NYC before you get a target on your back. No ill will towards Spirit pilots whatsoever, btw.
#123
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
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So, I don't know how accurate it is, but I heard directly from 2 differrnt CKAMs that the hiring freeze was considered and never implemented. They decided to continue hiring and interviewing as planned and published by SWAPA in June. The number of classes planned till the end of this year are 2 in August, 2 in September, 3 in October, 2 in November and 1 for December.
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