Originally Posted by Ebola

It’s been interesting watching the OSW lap up the product, until reality slowly dawned.

Originally Posted by e6bpilot

That was all about the author's emotional attachment to ATL. He came from the AT side of the house. They gave them free voluntary moves and coddled them in comms, apologizing heavily, then proceeded to gut Denver Nanking style.

I hung on to DEN thinking the cuts were done and then got the Oct vacancy and left on my own accord. I wish I would have just pulled the plug earlier so I could have bid vaca in my new base.

If I had a paid move, I probably would have exercised it, but I am too senior to get displaced and DEN didn't get the voluntary option. It's a great base, especially if you like to play the game. Solid people and great chief pilots. SWA just soured on building it up with personnel. It's biting them in the ass right now anytime weather rolls through as they don't have as many crews in place there.

Such is life in the airline game, though. The only constant is change. As someone said above, if you told me 10 years ago that you could hold Orlando and BWI before OAK, I would have been like "sure, Jan."

Originally Posted by Ebola

lol. Nope. You have it completely backwards. Especially the first line. Where was that airlines HQ ? What relationship did the Orwellian operational HQ elements have with the ATL pilots and FA’s ? Consider that they were in some very uncivil contract negotiations for ~ six years. Which was a record (I believe).

Originally Posted by Ebola

I love a good narrative. “I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie Illinois”.

Originally Posted by Liberty

I won’t disagree that some OSW guys walk around with a kool aid mustache. Not as many these days. No matter the reality, we don’t need to be miserable at work either. There’s two ditches. The adopted kids are often in the miserable ditch. Can normally tell they were adopted in the first 2-3 minutes of a pairing. As with all things there are exceptions. I’ve flown with a few really incredible ones… a few.

Originally Posted by Avroman

The "adopted" captains were the ones that, by far, were the ones that honored the "first year FO don't buy" tradition in my experience. I only flew with one FAT guy that just couldn't let it go plus had to be the religious Jl O in addition to the regional Jn O and be the one DB on my no fly list.