Southwest Airlines Community

hey, all you good folks at frontier... be thankful, if southwest takes you over... it could be worse, just ask any ex eastern employee...once upon a time there was a guy named frank lorenzo, who had nothing but disdain for unions and employees in general, he took continental into chapter 11 twice...and stole routes and aircraft from eastern, we were wounded just like you are...the difference between then and now, southwest will grow the operation, not destroy it... southwest won't say it, but the president of us air did say it...there is too many seats chasing too few passengers at some point, overall capacity has to come out of the system, unfortunately, you, are going to be the first sacrificial lamb, good luck to all of you, some of you are going to keep your jobs and be with a profitable company that treats it's people pretty good...just think of it this way,,southwest must be doing something right, they have made money for years and never had a strike, never, thank god have had an fatal crash, by the way, to this day is still have not flown on southwest.. but as someone who still follows the industry, i do admire what they have accomplished, and hope that they can work some magic for all you long suffering frontier employees... ... View more

i was stationed at danang air force base from mar 68-69... this video brought back some memories...i later worked for eastern airlines...as an aside..i worked part time (while in the air force) for pan am writing tickets for the married guys to bring their wives from the mainland to honolulu for r & r...pan am ran all of the r & r flights in and out of viet nam...and i will never forget the great job that their people did... ... View more

as a former employee of eastern airlines, for all the negative press about airlines, it was great to hear about what you have done for these families. where were you guys when i was in viet nam 1968...ha ha.. jim saas ... View more

appreciated your comments.. i am retired eastern airlines (should have gone to work for southwest) we had a program called leisure class.. the whole premise was the passenger was betting that we couldn't get him a seat...we usually won the bet.. and it was based on past load factors going back five years in some cases.. keep up the good work...you guys do a great job.. ... View more