I think you can manage to simply spell out your full name when you fly can't ya?
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10-23-2009
08:17 PM
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Kym, what position were you looking to get into, also what city are you in? With all of the recent expansion, positions are opening up. Traditionally when a new city opens, the company allows for employees to make transfers and shuffle around to where they want to be. After that happens, there are spaces left to be filled.
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I've noticed that the overwhelming majority of people are unhappy with this idea and I hope Southwest will take that under consideration.
The whole idea seems entirely flawed to me. In actuality, the whole "benefit" of being able to opt to board earlier works exactly in REVERSE. It used to be, the early bird gets the worm. In other words, you check in earlier, you board earlier. This was a fair system and it allowed some form of control for people who absolutely need to have aisle or window seats. Now, with that being completely undermined by a very small fee, there is no way at all to have that "control". All this fee effectively does is change the boarding order from who checked in first to who bought their ticket first, because lets face it, most people are going to opt for the small $10 fee otherwise they'll be guaranteed "C" boarding and a nice comfy middle seat. So, when you look at it that way you're almost being strong armed into paying the $10. It's not so much a "priority boarding fee" and much as it is a "dear god, please keep me out of C boarding" fee.
On top of that, I think this really sort of dilutes the "Business Select" product. On most flights, the difference between the wanna get away fare and the business select fare is pretty high. I have a hard time believing that people are paying double fare for a free drink and 1 extra RR credit.
So, I've come to the conclusion that this was either a very poor business decision, or this move doesn't have the customer's best interest in mind and this is simply a covert way of jacking up fares $10 across the board. If the latter is true, I beg Southwest to just GO AHEAD AND RAISE FARES but leave out ability to assure ourselves the seating that we require alone.
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No sour grapes or anything, but I will enjoy looking forward to seeing how Republic intends to run a real airline for the first time. Frontier pilots may have blown an excellent opportunity to get in with THE premier domestic airline in the United States and make substantially more money. I would bet that Southwest did not anticipate FAPA coming into this situation making ANY sort of demands at all. It seems to me that they were not coming from any real place of leverage, and would have been (and were) completely out of line in expecting SLI. Even a 3 year WN FO earns more than an F9 captain.. Well at any rate, Frontier pilots made their stand and I hope they will be happy with the results. Let's all revisit this topic in 2012 for kicks, what do ya say?
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No sour grapes or anything, but I will enjoy looking forward to seeing how Republic intends to run a real airline for the first time. Frontier pilots may have blown an excellent opportunity to get in with THE premier domestic airline in the United States and make substantially more money. I would bet that Southwest did not anticipate FAPA coming into this situation making ANY sort of demands at all. It seems to me that they were not coming from any real place of leverage, and would have been (and were) completely out of line in expecting SLI. Even a 3 year WN FO earns more than an F9 captain.. Well at any rate, Frontier pilots made their stand and I hope they will be happy with the results. Let's all revisit this topic in 2012 for kicks, what do ya say?
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