Is it wise to piss off the folks that keep the planes airworthy?
SW was the airline that reached major status non-union and the unionized dying airline industry that could not compete was exposed as hamstrung by union dominations.
Six years ago, the mechanics got a toe hold to try and kill it.
Rather than abide by its contract, it keeps trying to get a strangle hold on the company it is negotiating with to featherbed and increase costs.
Is it wise to piss off the folks that keep the planes airworthy?
Per the snippet...
According to the complaint, Southwest began experiencing an "uptick on cosmetic and other minor maintenance write-ups that do not have an effect on the safety of the flight," like a missing row number for an airline that doesn't assign seats, which spiked almost 400 percent to 500 percent after Feb. 10, 2019.
Even union people wouldn't let an unsafe plane fly.
Falsifying maintenance logs would expose them to criminal prosecution.
It seems to me that it isn't wise to piss off the people paying your salary and, by extension, the union dues.
Two people you never want to piss off: People who cook your food, and people who fix your planes.
Southwest could float a bankruptsy story with plans for closure and layoffs...can’t fly unsafe plane, then the airline can’t make money, then everyone needs to be fired...the unions could be hoisted on their own petard.
Baloney. They are union jerks killing Wyatt was the best airline out there. When the culture there was heavily “Texas” it was in its glory.
Now they have riff raff in places like Philly, New York, California, Florida, that laugh at that customer service ethic.
It’s probably even more idiotic that mechanics are working hard to convince the public that their fleet is falling apart and causing system wide delays.
It’s called killing your own job - at a company that historical treats employees very very well.
is it wise to fly in a plane the mechanics have intentionally been screwing with?
fire them all. Plenty of military vets with avionics experience who won’t screw around with passenger safety for inhouse political reasons.
It is when those folks have a gripe with you and are doing their best to put you out of business or bow down to them.