To the guy that avoids SWA --
The Frontier pilots are going to be taking a pay cut since Republic won. The most senior pilots at Republic make less than a First Officer that has been with Southwest for around 2 years.
I am glad that the general loyalty for Frontier are people that aren't business savvy. This is going to end up hurting them in the long run, but oh well... sucks to be them.
I love SWA, and I hope that they show by load factors and their profits that they can be profitable, without the protection of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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The Alaska Air Group is probably not in the best position to put a bid on F9. When I was working there, which was about a year ago, they still weren't as profitable as WN is/was.
QX had a hub in DEN when they were contracted to fly Frontier Jet Express. It lost money for them, even though F9 was paying the bills. Another thing, AS is expanding on the west coast, and needs to watch its self in its own backyard from Virgin America, and other people trying to fly down the west coast from SEA.
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I used to work for QX here in GEG, and we had to work F9 flights. I must tell you this, the people that fly WN and F9 are completely different people. Someone mentioned that F9 has class and that they are just get in get out and no fun? F9 is a low cost carrier as well, that has a single-class cabin, just like WN does. Being get in and get out? That is what makes WN unique. Look how fast they turn their planes, unloaded and loaded back again in 20 minutes. Not many airlines can say that, not even Horizon, which took almost 35 minutes to turn a Q400. And no fun? WN employees are some of the nicest in the airline industry. There was an instance in PDX where some F9 people were not very nice to me. I was on my way to LAS and had to take F9 through PDX. There was a delay, and I wanted to ask if they had a rough estimate of how long the delay was. Well, in response I got a snobby lady that basically told me she didn't know.
In regards to the F9 employees, if your company gets sold to WN, and they have the ownership rights, why would they hire a bunch more people, when they don't need them.
Everyone can have their own opinion about how this is not fair, the employees are at a loss, as well as passengers, or whatever else they want to complain about. In the end, this is business. WN is going to do what it needs to do to stay profitable, and ahead in the airline industry.
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