1,221 Reasons Not to work for Southwest
06-27-2023, 12:53 PM
#681
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,797
training, lost growth, planes sitting empty...
all cheaper than paying you what you're worth.
They know exactly how much they can lose a month and still come out ahead by stalling.
Even if we get everything we ask for they still come out ahead because of the interest they make off of the billions they saved.
At the end of the day the BOD of the company doesnt care if the company loses money. All they care about is how much stock they buy back to make themselves richer
all cheaper than paying you what you're worth.
They know exactly how much they can lose a month and still come out ahead by stalling.
Even if we get everything we ask for they still come out ahead because of the interest they make off of the billions they saved.
At the end of the day the BOD of the company doesnt care if the company loses money. All they care about is how much stock they buy back to make themselves richer
06-27-2023, 05:58 PM
#682
Gets Weekends Off
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Joined APC: Nov 2021
Posts: 202
Here is another reason NOT to work for Southwest.
'Pre-Boarding Scam': Customers Furious at Southwest Airlines After 20 Passengers Ask For Wheelchair Assistance to Board
https://www.entrepreneur.com/busines...vnR-rd2oUldSHQ
'Pre-Boarding Scam': Customers Furious at Southwest Airlines After 20 Passengers Ask For Wheelchair Assistance to Board
https://www.entrepreneur.com/busines...vnR-rd2oUldSHQ
06-28-2023, 07:22 AM
#684
At your mom's house
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: cpt 737
Posts: 2,797
Here is another reason NOT to work for Southwest.
'Pre-Boarding Scam': Customers Furious at Southwest Airlines After 20 Passengers Ask For Wheelchair Assistance to Board
https://www.entrepreneur.com/busines...vnR-rd2oUldSHQ
'Pre-Boarding Scam': Customers Furious at Southwest Airlines After 20 Passengers Ask For Wheelchair Assistance to Board
https://www.entrepreneur.com/busines...vnR-rd2oUldSHQ
I had 108 preboard a flight to FL on an 800.
06-28-2023, 07:37 AM
#685
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 641
I was scheduled for 17 days this month. I tried to use the lead out days (that I got stuck with) to get a trip pulled in the lead in month. I couldn't make it happen due to lack of seniority. If this is how they plan to account for way too few pilots, and they do, anyone would be crazy to come here. As far as reserve goes, don't let anyone tell you you'll work less reserve on our contract than at the big three. With overlap you will get extra days stuffed up your a ss regularly. Our contract sucks. And that's all without long call. Ever.
06-29-2023, 04:10 PM
#687
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 188
Ops agent at a certain Puerto Rican destination told me they had 52 wheelchairs on one flight a little while ago. Said the 800 was over half full with chair-riders and escorts by the time they got to general boarding.
06-29-2023, 04:58 PM
#688
Strike averted!
Joined APC: Mar 2015
Position: B737
Posts: 3,781
The good news is that the miraculous healing of the waters of Isla Verde made it so that only two people needed a wheelchair to deplane.
06-29-2023, 06:37 PM
#689
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2017
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 988
We need to force the issue. You cannot deplane without a chair if you needed one to board. It’s too much liability for the company to assume, and in this day and age you can never be too careful. Wheelchairs passengers are free to pre board and sit where they like, but they should have to deplane last as it’s safer with more room and less objects in the way, and there’s a much greater likelihood the wheelchair pushers will actually be there with their chairs.
Ever notice how the people who obviously need a wheelchair usually have a system that works for them and wait til there’s plenty of room and plenty of assistance before they make their way off the plane, almost like they’ve done it before and aren’t doing it to scam the system?
06-29-2023, 06:57 PM
#690
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
Just another self inflicted wound resulting from no seat assignments. You don’t see Delta clearing out the first row of first class so preboarders can sit wherever they want.
Make it an exit row. You’re going to have to move ABPs into that row if there’s a planned evacuation anyway. Make it easy. No preboards in row one.
Make it an exit row. You’re going to have to move ABPs into that row if there’s a planned evacuation anyway. Make it easy. No preboards in row one.
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