Southwest to charge for bags

They'll pull all these levers, then after the Trump recession he who shall not be named will dust off the old playbook from his USAir days. They'll say they've tried everything possible to increase revenue but now they have no other options than to decrease costs.

Dark times ahead Harry.
 
ZapBrannigan said:
They'll pull all these levers, then after the Trump recession he who shall not be named will dust off the old playbook from his USAir days. They'll say they've tried everything possible to increase revenue but now they have no other options than to decrease costs.

Dark times ahead Harry.
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Aw shucks Zap, 2 billion in stock buybacks aren’t going to pay for themselves!

Wonder if this was the final nail in Ryan Green’s job here. He was really going after the study that said charging for bags was a loser on investor day.

I’ll be an optimist and say that at least there is another revenue lever being pulled on the brink of the coming Trump recession.
 
arkflyr said:
2 billion in stock buybacks aren’t going to pay for themselves!
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“Jan 7 (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines said on Tuesday it had entered into a deal to sell and lease back 36 of its Boeing 737-800 aircraft from Babcock & Brown Aircraft Management (BBAM).”
 
ASpilot2be said:
My wife was on her way to a Southwest FA interview. She landed in Denver for her connection, and received an email saying "JK. We're not hiring anymore. " So she waited six hours and went home.
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So now Southwest, who was once the least likely carrier to do something like that IMO, is doing things like this. In aviation, I've only heard of vendors like Trego Dugan or G2 flying people to interviews then turning them around. Not even larger ones like Swissport and Menzies.

And here's Southwest doing it to cabin crew. A true circus show in a totally different way than years past. Throw in the inevitable merger and I see this company fading away like Frontier. They'll be around; but a totally different place to work/fly.

To be honest, I'm a bit shocked the company hasn't addressed the unions not allowing vendors to do stations with more than 8 flights per day or something (SBA, FAT, ect). There are very, very few stations with G2 doing Southwest ramp/CS for now...
 
ASpilot2be said:
My wife was on her way to a Southwest FA interview. She landed in Denver for her connection, and received an email saying "JK. We're not hiring anymore. " So she waited six hours and went home.
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I think we are hiring, let me know I can look into it more if she'd be interested
 
derg said:
There’s an airline with a SEA base, headquartered in the SE US, that you might know someone at…
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Yep. She thought about it, but they were sending new hires to Boston, and wanted no part of that commute. Obviously it could all change, but she decided she would rather stay where she is and wait for the possibility of being somewhere where she could be based in PDX.
 
derg said:
There’s an airline with a SEA base, headquartered in the SE US, that you might know someone at…
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That could be Southern Air Transport if “SEA” = Southeast Asia, which would be a fun symmetry for someone flying those planes now.
 
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