Difficult Decisions
09-24-2024, 10:22 AM
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Current managements view of the future of SWA is very different from what EM's vision is. To be honest I don't care as long as the airline gets back to a sustainable profitable company. I expect a lot hype with "we have a great plan that will get us back to where we need to be" but I'm pretty confident now that BJ and AW won't be around to watch it play out except as passenger. EM seem's to have most of all institutional investors behind them, hence why GK was bounced. Part 1 begins on Thursday. Part 2 will be election on many new board members. Part 3 will be the firing of BJ and AW. Part 4 will be SWAPA spending millions to protect our CBA as the newbies try to dismantle it, as well as all the other CBA's that SWA just signed.
09-24-2024, 01:07 PM
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Current managements view of the future of SWA is very different from what EM's vision is. To be honest I don't care as long as the airline gets back to a sustainable profitable company. I expect a lot hype with "we have a great plan that will get us back to where we need to be" but I'm pretty confident now that BJ and AW won't be around to watch it play out except as passenger. EM seem's to have most of all institutional investors behind them, hence why GK was bounced. Part 1 begins on Thursday. Part 2 will be election on many new board members. Part 3 will be the firing of BJ and AW. Part 4 will be SWAPA spending millions to protect our CBA as the newbies try to dismantle it, as well as all the other CBA's that SWA just signed.
We need to cut VP’s like crazy and trim HDQ of the excess personnel that have nothing to do with running a profitable airline.
09-24-2024, 01:32 PM
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I didn’t think AW was on the chopping block. Everyone else was though. They wanted people who had worked elsewhere and weren’t institutionalized SWA employees for 30 years. I think Tom Nealon and AW would be a good #1/2. I don’t know enough about Tammy Romo other than her emails 4x/yr to have an idea over whether or not she needs to take a hike.
We need to cut VP’s like crazy and trim HDQ of the excess personnel that have nothing to do with running a profitable airline.
We need to cut VP’s like crazy and trim HDQ of the excess personnel that have nothing to do with running a profitable airline.
Seems like EM doesn’t even want them to implement anything at all. Don’t waste the money. Hence why they will push the special meeting next month.
09-24-2024, 01:47 PM
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Current managements view of the future of SWA is very different from what EM's vision is. To be honest I don't care as long as the airline gets back to a sustainable profitable company. I expect a lot hype with "we have a great plan that will get us back to where we need to be" but I'm pretty confident now that BJ and AW won't be around to watch it play out except as passenger. EM seem's to have most of all institutional investors behind them, hence why GK was bounced. Part 1 begins on Thursday. Part 2 will be election on many new board members. Part 3 will be the firing of BJ and AW. Part 4 will be SWAPA spending millions to protect our CBA as the newbies try to dismantle it, as well as all the other CBA's that SWA just signed.
I think this is going to end in a profitable and sustainable business, but I also think there is going to be pain in the meantime. Management clearly wants to stick around for another round of annual bonuses. EM is trying to peel the bandaid off. It's an interesting game of chicken to watch. I can't imagine there are too many CEO candidates that want to step into Jordan's role. I wish I could fast forward a year and see how this all plays out instead of watching it in slow motion.
09-24-2024, 07:31 PM
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I didn’t think AW was on the chopping block. Everyone else was though. They wanted people who had worked elsewhere and weren’t institutionalized SWA employees for 30 years. I think Tom Nealon and AW would be a good #1/2. I don’t know enough about Tammy Romo other than her emails 4x/yr to have an idea over whether or not she needs to take a hike.
We need to cut VP’s like crazy and trim HDQ of the excess personnel that have nothing to do with running a profitable airline.
We need to cut VP’s like crazy and trim HDQ of the excess personnel that have nothing to do with running a profitable airline.
The upcoming 'OPs Day' will be very interesting for me. I am curious to see the tone from certain HDQ people versus the last few times I was there where they were 'independently' educating us on the
09-24-2024, 08:32 PM
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I am far from smart on anything higher than my lowly station as a little cog in this machine, but I felt Elliot specifically highlighted AW in their power point presentation as one of the few (if not only) execs who had any airline experience outside of SWA. I took that to mean they wanted to keep him versus other people. I may be wrong, and that is definitely a possibility but I thought AW is the heir apparent for taking the helm.
The upcoming 'OPs Day' will be very interesting for me. I am curious to see the tone from certain HDQ people versus the last few times I was there where they were 'independently' educating us on themanagement 'common sense side' of things vs. the mean/nasty SWAPA side of contract negotiations. Are we all one big family again?!
The upcoming 'OPs Day' will be very interesting for me. I am curious to see the tone from certain HDQ people versus the last few times I was there where they were 'independently' educating us on the
09-25-2024, 04:56 AM
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Anyone read SWAPA's email this morning? Losing flights and gates in ATL, with 70 displacements per seat coming in April.
The "difficult decisions" dominoes are starting to fall.
It took nearly 3 decades, but I am starting to get strong feelings of deja vu all over again of previous lives.
The "difficult decisions" dominoes are starting to fall.
It took nearly 3 decades, but I am starting to get strong feelings of deja vu all over again of previous lives.
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