Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
09-19-2010, 09:02 AM
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You know how to rally a crowd around here? Its not cheerleaders nor Erin Andrews, which I'm not sure anyone really noticed, its a little red meat:
YouTube - Southwest Airlines Commercial: Battle Cry
DALLAS, April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association is pushing for the Department of Transportation to disallow the permanent exchange of several hundred slots between Delta Airlines and USAirways at LaGuardia (LGA) and Washington National (DCA) Airports. This unprecedented anti-competitive deal would create hubs dominated by Delta at LGA and USAirways at DCA, giving them unchecked market and pricing power.
"The pilots of Southwest support our Company's request for a free market process to take place regarding these open slots in two very key destinations," said Capt. Carl Kuwitzky, SWAPA President. "But we also support the benefit to the public of a low-cost carrier providing true competition for flyers in these markets."
On March 22, after the DOT comment deadline closed, Delta and USAirways announced a revision to their proposal: they would agree to divest some slots, but only if they could hand-pick four smaller airlines to be given those slots. Southwest Airlines was purposely excluded from an opportunity to bid.
"An economic expert estimates that Southwest's service to LGA and DCA would save the public approximately $200 million, annually, if Southwest were given the opportunity to acquire the slots," continued Kuwitzky. "This proposal is a back-room deal specifically designed to keep Southwest Airlines and its low-fare model away from these airports permanently."
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Southwest’s average passenger airfare is $124.90 one-way, and the average passenger trip length is about 859 miles.
Southwest Airlines has consistently received the lowest ratio of complaints per passengers boarded of all Major U.S. carriers that have been reporting statistics to the Department of Transportation (DOT) since September 1987, which is when the DOT began tracking Customer Satisfaction statistics and publishing its Air Travel Consumer Report.
The airline adopted the first profit-sharing plan in the U.S. airline industry in 1973. Through this plan and others, Employees own about 8 percent of the Company stock.
The airline is about 83 percent* unionized.
(This percentage represents a total Employee headcount of fulltime and parttime, active and inactive Employees who are unionized.)
Southwest Airlines is a member of the FORTUNE 500.
The Ronald McDonald House program, cornerstone of the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities, is the primary corporate charity of Southwest Airlines. Annually, the Company sponsors the Southwest Airlines LUV Classic golf tournaments whose proceeds benefit various Ronald McDonald Houses and have totaled close to $11 million over the past 24 years.
In April 2010, Southwest Airlines ranked #4 among airlines and #12 among all industries, on FORTUNE Magazine’s annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies.
In March 2010, Southwest Airlines was awarded the Diamond Award, at the Air Cargo World awards ceremony, with the highest overall airline score leading all airlines in the Performance and Value categories.
In February 2010, Business Week released its 2009 Top 20 Best Companies for Leadership list—Southwest Airlines ranked #2!
In January 2010, Southwest Airlines was recognized by Vault.com for having one of the Top 10 Internships in America for 2010.
In December 2009, Southwest Airlines topped the list of the 50 best U.S. places to work by Glassdoor.com.
In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was named Best Low Cost/No Frills Airline in the OAG Airline Industry Awards. Additionally, Southwest Airlines was named as a finalist for Best Airline based in North America.
In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was recognized with an InfoWorld 100 Award for its Automated Outbound Messaging (AOM) system.
In November 2009, Zagat named Southwest Airlines Best Value–Domestic; Best Consumer Ontime Estimates–Domestic; and Best Luggage Policy–Domestic.
In November, 2009, Southwest Airlines was recognized as Favorite Domestic Airline and ranked #1 in Best Customer Service, Best Airfare Prices, Best On-Time Service, Best Baggage Service, and Best Value Frequent Flier program, among others, in the 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards by Smarter Travel.
In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was listed as one of the Top 50 Companies Recognized as Leaders in Corporate Social Responsibility by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and Reputation Institute.
In October 2009, Nuts About Southwest was awarded “Best Blog” for the third year in a row at the PR News Platinum Awards.
In September 2009, Southwest Airlines ranked #179 out of 500 in Newsweek’s Green Ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the US. Within the category of “Media, Travel & Leisure” Southwest ranked #17 out of 35 and was the highest ranking airline!
In August 2009, Southwest Airlines was named Best Domestic Airline, Best Domestic Airline Customer Service, and Best Low Cost Carrier by Executive Travel magazine’s 2009 Leading Edge Awards.
In June 2009, Southwest Airlines was named to MSN Money’s Customer Service Hall of Fame.
In April 2009, Southwest Airlines received the “American Brand Excellence Award for Travel,” and was recognized as the “2009 Grand Award Winner” in the City Business Journal Network’s Brand Excellence Awards.
In April 2009, Southwest Airlines was included in BusinessWeek’s ranking of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.
In March 2009, Southwest Airlines was ranked #3 on CampusGrotto’s list of Best College Internship Programs.
In March 2009, Southwest Airlines was Ranked #1 in the category for Airlines in Institutional Investor’s magazine poll of America’s Most Shareholder Friendly Companies.
In 2009, Southwest Airlines was named the top U.S. airline on the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Southwest Airlines was recognized as a 2009 Corporation of the Year by MANA, a National Latina Organization.
Southwest Airlines was named the seventh most admired Company in FORTUNE magazine’s ranking of the 50 Most Admired Companies in the World; the only U.S. airline to make the list and the 13th consecutive year that Southwest has been named to the Most Admired List.
For the 11th consecutive year, Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards took top honors and was awarded first place in Best Award Redemption category at the 21st Annual Freddie Awards. The Best Award Redemption category was introduced in 1998 and no other frequent flyer program has ever won! In addition Rapid Rewards placed in the top five in five other categories, including: Program of the Year; Best Website for southwest.com; Best Member Communcations; Best Bonus Promotion; and Best Customer Service.
Southwest Airlines Cargo was recognized for its excellence in air cargo for the sixth straight year, named “Airline of the Year” by the Express Delivery & Logistics Association (XLA). Southwest Airlines has placed on XLA’s Airline of the Year list for nine consecutive years. In addition, Southwest Airlines Cargo won XLA’s award for Excellence in Web Site and Technology.
YouTube - Southwest Airlines Commercial: Battle Cry
DALLAS, April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association is pushing for the Department of Transportation to disallow the permanent exchange of several hundred slots between Delta Airlines and USAirways at LaGuardia (LGA) and Washington National (DCA) Airports. This unprecedented anti-competitive deal would create hubs dominated by Delta at LGA and USAirways at DCA, giving them unchecked market and pricing power.
"The pilots of Southwest support our Company's request for a free market process to take place regarding these open slots in two very key destinations," said Capt. Carl Kuwitzky, SWAPA President. "But we also support the benefit to the public of a low-cost carrier providing true competition for flyers in these markets."
On March 22, after the DOT comment deadline closed, Delta and USAirways announced a revision to their proposal: they would agree to divest some slots, but only if they could hand-pick four smaller airlines to be given those slots. Southwest Airlines was purposely excluded from an opportunity to bid.
"An economic expert estimates that Southwest's service to LGA and DCA would save the public approximately $200 million, annually, if Southwest were given the opportunity to acquire the slots," continued Kuwitzky. "This proposal is a back-room deal specifically designed to keep Southwest Airlines and its low-fare model away from these airports permanently."
----
Southwest’s average passenger airfare is $124.90 one-way, and the average passenger trip length is about 859 miles.
Southwest Airlines has consistently received the lowest ratio of complaints per passengers boarded of all Major U.S. carriers that have been reporting statistics to the Department of Transportation (DOT) since September 1987, which is when the DOT began tracking Customer Satisfaction statistics and publishing its Air Travel Consumer Report.
The airline adopted the first profit-sharing plan in the U.S. airline industry in 1973. Through this plan and others, Employees own about 8 percent of the Company stock.
The airline is about 83 percent* unionized.
(This percentage represents a total Employee headcount of fulltime and parttime, active and inactive Employees who are unionized.)
Southwest Airlines is a member of the FORTUNE 500.
The Ronald McDonald House program, cornerstone of the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities, is the primary corporate charity of Southwest Airlines. Annually, the Company sponsors the Southwest Airlines LUV Classic golf tournaments whose proceeds benefit various Ronald McDonald Houses and have totaled close to $11 million over the past 24 years.
In April 2010, Southwest Airlines ranked #4 among airlines and #12 among all industries, on FORTUNE Magazine’s annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies.
In March 2010, Southwest Airlines was awarded the Diamond Award, at the Air Cargo World awards ceremony, with the highest overall airline score leading all airlines in the Performance and Value categories.
In February 2010, Business Week released its 2009 Top 20 Best Companies for Leadership list—Southwest Airlines ranked #2!
In January 2010, Southwest Airlines was recognized by Vault.com for having one of the Top 10 Internships in America for 2010.
In December 2009, Southwest Airlines topped the list of the 50 best U.S. places to work by Glassdoor.com.
In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was named Best Low Cost/No Frills Airline in the OAG Airline Industry Awards. Additionally, Southwest Airlines was named as a finalist for Best Airline based in North America.
In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was recognized with an InfoWorld 100 Award for its Automated Outbound Messaging (AOM) system.
In November 2009, Zagat named Southwest Airlines Best Value–Domestic; Best Consumer Ontime Estimates–Domestic; and Best Luggage Policy–Domestic.
In November, 2009, Southwest Airlines was recognized as Favorite Domestic Airline and ranked #1 in Best Customer Service, Best Airfare Prices, Best On-Time Service, Best Baggage Service, and Best Value Frequent Flier program, among others, in the 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards by Smarter Travel.
In November 2009, Southwest Airlines was listed as one of the Top 50 Companies Recognized as Leaders in Corporate Social Responsibility by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and Reputation Institute.
In October 2009, Nuts About Southwest was awarded “Best Blog” for the third year in a row at the PR News Platinum Awards.
In September 2009, Southwest Airlines ranked #179 out of 500 in Newsweek’s Green Ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the US. Within the category of “Media, Travel & Leisure” Southwest ranked #17 out of 35 and was the highest ranking airline!
In August 2009, Southwest Airlines was named Best Domestic Airline, Best Domestic Airline Customer Service, and Best Low Cost Carrier by Executive Travel magazine’s 2009 Leading Edge Awards.
In June 2009, Southwest Airlines was named to MSN Money’s Customer Service Hall of Fame.
In April 2009, Southwest Airlines received the “American Brand Excellence Award for Travel,” and was recognized as the “2009 Grand Award Winner” in the City Business Journal Network’s Brand Excellence Awards.
In April 2009, Southwest Airlines was included in BusinessWeek’s ranking of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.
In March 2009, Southwest Airlines was ranked #3 on CampusGrotto’s list of Best College Internship Programs.
In March 2009, Southwest Airlines was Ranked #1 in the category for Airlines in Institutional Investor’s magazine poll of America’s Most Shareholder Friendly Companies.
In 2009, Southwest Airlines was named the top U.S. airline on the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Southwest Airlines was recognized as a 2009 Corporation of the Year by MANA, a National Latina Organization.
Southwest Airlines was named the seventh most admired Company in FORTUNE magazine’s ranking of the 50 Most Admired Companies in the World; the only U.S. airline to make the list and the 13th consecutive year that Southwest has been named to the Most Admired List.
For the 11th consecutive year, Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards took top honors and was awarded first place in Best Award Redemption category at the 21st Annual Freddie Awards. The Best Award Redemption category was introduced in 1998 and no other frequent flyer program has ever won! In addition Rapid Rewards placed in the top five in five other categories, including: Program of the Year; Best Website for southwest.com; Best Member Communcations; Best Bonus Promotion; and Best Customer Service.
Southwest Airlines Cargo was recognized for its excellence in air cargo for the sixth straight year, named “Airline of the Year” by the Express Delivery & Logistics Association (XLA). Southwest Airlines has placed on XLA’s Airline of the Year list for nine consecutive years. In addition, Southwest Airlines Cargo won XLA’s award for Excellence in Web Site and Technology.
09-19-2010, 09:08 AM
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This thread is now "Latest and Greatest at Southwest?"
09-19-2010, 09:09 AM
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And this:
New hire pay, $22/hr, FO pay tops out at $44/hr.
And according to their Flight Attendants and Pilots, they've got enough money to buy Delta Air Lines and just might do it.
New hire pay, $22/hr, FO pay tops out at $44/hr.
And according to their Flight Attendants and Pilots, they've got enough money to buy Delta Air Lines and just might do it.
09-19-2010, 09:12 AM
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09-19-2010, 10:14 AM
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I wonder if that's a DAL or JB 320 in their latest launch of stupid commercials. Not really sure, but at least it's comforting knowing SWA rampers can do basic math. 
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09-19-2010, 10:20 AM
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So gate agents are denying the jumpseat to feds?
09-19-2010, 10:24 AM
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09-19-2010, 11:09 AM
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09-19-2010, 11:12 AM
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I do not know where SKW Inc or their pilots get the notion that they have enough cash on had to buy DAL. Our Market Cap is at 8.820 billion. Last time I checked they did not even have 1/8 of that in cash. Now when DAL was at 4 share anyone could have bought us. Plus, I beleive we have over 788,908,765 outstanding shares.
09-19-2010, 11:23 AM
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Just saw this in another thread. Now I'm really pi$$ed.............Less than 24 hours ago I purchased a Telex 850. Karma is a cold hearted mudder sometimes
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