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Old 10-02-2020, 03:40 PM
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Well? At the risk of being called Eeyore again, figured I'd see what you guys think.




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Old 10-02-2020, 04:16 PM
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Whole lotta what if's....

Airline's will be given another round of bailout money at some point and hopefully that'll be enough to get us where we need to be when travel demand picks back up.
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I liked seeing the numbers breakdown but most of it was not new information. I liked the "best house in a bad neighborhood" metaphor, it seems appropriate. No one should believe that SWA is immune to concessions or furloughs in the current environment.
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Old 10-03-2020, 10:18 AM
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Guess we're used to bad news being watered down. I appreciate the honesty, even when it's not uplifting. I can plan better around honest information than I can downplayed information.
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I feel like he was talking more to congress than to the employees at this point.
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Old 10-03-2020, 01:51 PM
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I just had my third-year anniversary.

I lay my odds of being here past June at about 50/50.

I consider myself an optimist.
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For us outsiders, What was in the email?
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I wonder if it was kind of like Gary's video message, more directed at DC for help than anything else.
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Old 10-03-2020, 07:23 PM
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For us outsiders, What was in the email?
Basically things suck because pandemic, we need to expect a concession-or-furlough offer eventually, and some of what they're currently discussing is under NDA so trust us we're working on it blah blah.

About what you'd expect. SWA and SWAPA will put everything off to the last second (compared to everyone else in the industry) and the results will probably reflect the timing just as much as the actual need for the corporate bottom line.

Unofficially, the response has been "we have 2 yrs of cash on hand so no concessions" and "GK has only taken a 20% pay cut so we'll talk concessions when he changes his salary to $1 to prove he has skin in the game."

I'm assuming I'm furlough bait so I'm not taking ETO, still working open time whenever I can, and fixing up my resume for job fairs while preparing mentally for having to move out of my state to someplace cheaper and sucky enough that potential employers might send a new guy there.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
I just had my third-year anniversary.

I lay my odds of being here past June at about 50/50.

I consider myself an optimist.

I will take that bet, I say you will be here through all of 2021.
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