And so it begins...

[drinksonme]

Honestly I am not happy about this and hoped I would never see this day, but the LUV is not felt anymore.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6b8c...west-bag-workers-picketing-over-flight-delays

 

[Nindiri]

Ehh...Bag handlers can be replaced. It doesn't exactly take a lot of training to sling bags. If they aren't happy with their pay, let them go find someone else that pays unskilled labor so well as SW.

 

[flyingitalian]

Nice attitude about fellow Union employees. They have actually produced data showing their productivity advantages over the stations that Swa has contacted out.

Be careful, pretty soon someone might say to you, "eeee why do we have to pay you 12,000 a month when we can get an Indian/ Chinese pilot for 2000 a month." Watch out for that karma.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

"Hey, there's a loose thread on your sweater."

"I'm not gonna worry about it, it's in the armpit."

 

[StopNTSing]

Honestly I am not happy about this and hoped I would never see this day, but the LUV is not felt anymore.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6b8c...west-bag-workers-picketing-over-flight-delays

If you think this is the first time a labor group at SWA has engaged in informational picketing, then you haven't been paying much attention.

 

[flythere]

Good luck with that, hell they can't even find qualified pilots within their own country, why are they paying US pilots so much to fly in China and India??

 

[waveflyer]

"Hey, there's a loose thread on your sweater."

"I'm not gonna worry about it, it's in the armpit."

Well said^^^

Ditto the karma

 

[Nindiri]

There is no karma.

 

[T-1GUY]

Good luck with that, hell they can't even find qualified pilots within their own country, why are they paying US pilots so much to fly in China and India??

There are numerous flight schools here in the US that are cranking out Chinese students in great numbers. It is a huge business. Be careful, karma is a bitch..

 

[waveflyer]

China has a billion more people than the U.S. Plus the population of Texas.
Their middle class isn't like ours, but it is finally growing -
Every 1% of their population that joins the middle class is another 14 million people who need and want air service.
India has 1.27 billion people. Just a tiny mountain range away.
Those pilots are needed at their home. It's not cockiness, it's A fact that our pilots post 9/11 standard of living is some of the lowest in the world and in aviation history.
There was a lag, but the idea that there are tens of thousands lining up to fly in the United states for less just isn't bearing out anymore.