Southwest Airlines Community

I realize the flying public aren't aware of the "ins" and "outs" of the industry and can't understand why there is such a negative groundswell of emotion regarding this codeshare agreement. Think of it in these terms. If you had a job where seniority determines not only your pay, but your quality of life and your company decided to stop all promotions and instead, give positions away to people at another company when you, yourself were not only extremely capable, but probably more experienced at the job. This, in turn causes your position to stagnate for an undetermined amount of time, with only more of the same to come, are you going to be happy about it? While codeshare affects all Southwest employees as a whole, the flight attendants and pilots will bare the brunt of it in terms of schedules, seniority, and quality of life because of outsourcing rather than growth and the benefits that growth bring to the Southwest work force, which is, and always has been an asset to Southwest Airlines. It's a slap in the face of employees and I'm afraid turning the other cheek will only bring another slap with more codeshare agreements in the not too distant future. This isn't an "anti-Volaris" post, it's a "pro-employee" post. ... View more

Your customers are not impressed with the way you're acting in this particular blog discussion. Isn't this kind of the High School way to deal with your concerns? Most of you are disregarding what the customers have said which is rude, dumping on your new partner which is rude because they didn't do anything to you, and talking about what a pain it is and how you don't plan to go the extra when your job in particular isn't changing AT ALL and not exactly calling out to customers to fly with you. This is LAME. I respectfully disagree. As a Southwest customer, I admire the workforce coming together to voice the concerns that are on everyone's minds these days, and that is job loss due to outsourcing when there is a more than adequate and qualified group that can do the job themselves. Airline executives are notorious for "Golden Parachutes" and given what is going on currently in our economy, there IS a cause for concern among Southwest employees. A customer who understands ... View more

Southwest Airlines is a very diverse airlines and hires people from all walks of life and every ethnic background. Volaris, on the other hand, will only hire Mexican employees. Not only will Volaris be taking jobs away from Southwest Airline employees, management is handing over revenue to a company who is blatantly practicing discrimination... Way to go Gary Kelly, working for peanuts just took on a whole new meaning... POS always stood for "Positively Outrageous Service", I'm sure it has a different meaning to the employees with regards to codesharing... ... View more

It appears that the negatives are outweighing the "this is wonderful news" and all posts aren't being allowed... Coincidence? I think not... Of course, it coud be a computer glitch. Guess I could call tech support, but I don't feel like supporting that outsourcing either... ... View more

Management has claimed that Southwest employees are the best, and their pilots are the hardest working and most productive pilots in the industry. Their reward? Outsourcing and the impression that Southwest pilots may be capable of flying from L.A. to Providence, but an airline that has been in business for two years have pilots more qualified to fly from Phoenix to Mexico City... Wake up employees, this affects EVERYONE! Employees built this company, don't let the company give the fruits of your labor to another company and their employees! And to those who still think Herb was/is the Messiah, call a bookie in Vegas and see what the odds are on him working on this deal before his big farewell and Coleen's final show of "LUV" to the pilots... And to those customers who think this is just "hunky dory", your ticket purchase to Mexico and anywhere else this leads to, helps the inevitble loss of jobs to Southwest employees. It's only the beginning folks...If those who truly realize the damage that is done with outsourcing need to book a flight to any of the codeshare cities, I, for one, hope they book their flights on another carrier! UNITY!!! ... View more