Something big happening at Southwest...

ZapBrannigan said:
Still is. They wedged into the contract that new deliveries will come with the factory retractable sunscreens, but even when that starts it’s going to just be a tiny fraction of the hundreds of airplanes.
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It’s insane that something like that had to be negotiated. Sounds like a UPS thing TBH. As far as the sunshades being beat to hell, due to some individuals we can’t have nice things. People will unlatch them and let them slam back into the rolled position on the 767 :rolleyes:. I seen one last week that looked like someone took a bite out of the top portion. Maybe it was better than our catering 🤷‍♂️.

Are they going to put the suction cup sunshades on the older birds? Those are a game changer IMO. It was nice when we got them at 9E. They’re nice here especially leaving the west coast on those mornings flights.
 
phill1174 said:
Are they going to put the suction cup sunshades on the older birds? Those are a game changer IMO. It was nice when we got them at 9E. They’re nice here especially leaving the west coast on those mornings flights.
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Its like old school 737 snap-in green tint shades kept in the side storage bins
 
Today major cuts to the Frontline work force at airports in most departments. WN revealed they're scaling way back at SJC, which they've run with an iron fist since AA closed their (second) hub there in 2005. SJC built terminal B with the plan that it would eventually be doubled as terminal C when expansion warranted. Southwest rapidly wanted to expand there post-COVID so the airport got some trailers and made a bunch of ghetto ass ground boarding gates out of them and WN hired like crazy until OAK/SJC were close in staff numbers. They were still hiring a few weeks ago, now layoffs and I guess SJC won't go ahead with expansion as WN plans to move flights to SMF and just make that what OAK...was. If Alaska doesn't swoop in on every last SJC-SoCal and PacNW route WN does from SJC, it's a wasted opportunity. UA might as well restart LAX-SJC as well.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Today major cuts to the Frontline work force at airports in most departments. WN revealed they're scaling way back at SJC, which they've run with an iron fist since AA closed their (second) hub there in 2005. SJC built terminal B with the plan that it would eventually be doubled as terminal C when expansion warranted. Southwest rapidly wanted to expand there post-COVID so the airport got some trailers and made a bunch of ghetto ass ground boarding gates out of them and WN hired like crazy until OAK/SJC were close in staff numbers. They were still hiring a few weeks ago, now layoffs and I guess SJC won't go ahead with expansion as WN plans to move flights to SMF and just make that what OAK...was. If Alaska doesn't swoop in on every last SJC-SoCal and PacNW route WN does from SJC, it's a wasted opportunity. UA might as well restart LAX-SJC as well.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of cuts in California, especially SoCal.
 
It isn’t just SJC, they are cutting staff at several stations. Thing is though the flying really isn’t getting cut back that much. So it makes me wonder how overstaffed have they been.

Make no mistake either the overstaffing has been great for us, I don’t remember the last time I had to wait for a gate, marshalers or bags.

Also leaving the MCP set to 69s is hilarious, there used to be and some still do set everything to zero. To mess with the OCD types I’d leave it at 001, 002, 003…

To me it feels like what’s left of the old guard are just hanging on for dear life while the new overlords shake every dime they can out of this place. They announced that they are accelerating the stock buyback plan at the JP Morgan conference, something like 1.5 billion by the end of the year. For reference at the start of this year SWA was cash positive by 2 billion, meaning they could pay off all debt and still have that much left over. I doubt they will be able to say that come next January.
 
I guess another way to look at it is that they hired for growth and that hasn't happened and now the people they hired are getting the shaft.

Either way it is awful, and probably going to lead us back to the old days of operational suck.
 
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