Posted on 04/25/2024 11:53:15 AM PDT by george76
If your fired, you don’t get unemployment. Laid off you do.
Yeah, the owner would show up in the maintenance hanger on the late shift sometimes dressed in drag to have fun with his employees. I was gag time.
I have done a lot of travel over the years in Europe. The only reason it seems cheaper is that many of the flights are incredibly short by US standards. Mile for mile, I never found it “much cheaper”.
Unless things have changed,,(I have not flown for years,,,) Frontier was not a good airline,,,And Southwest was great. But like I said.....have not been on commercial flight in many years.
In Houston and Dallas, SW uses the old original city airports. Perhaps they do the same in other cities???
Best.Economy.Ever!
If few can afford to fly use the excuse
Rising labor costs “as well as pressure from planned maintenance expenses”.
Biden will gouge someone to keep you going or just print more money.
They fly mostly out of Hobby I don’t think their footprint is that big a Bush International
Houston has a second airport.
They are only leaving Bush International, they’ll still fly into Houston Hobby. A shame because Hobby is not as clean or nice or in as good a neighborhood (all just my opinions) as is Bush.
Sounds like they have grounds to file for unemployment because they were mass fired for economic reasons.
“Houston was a big surprise.”
IMO, keep the U.S. airports and ditch all the Mexican ones.
But speaking of Houston, Southwest currently flies into both Bush and Hobby
Bkmk
Southwest Airlines has a fleet of 820 aircraft, all Boeing 737 derivatives.
Hobby, down on the south side of town.
I see, correctly or not, airlines as a hedge against oil losses. If oil goes up I make money on Suncor, ect, but I think fuel is something like 70% of expenses for airlines. Further fuel price increases will really hit discretionary travel I would think.
Most of their flights are into Houston Hobby, not George Bush.
Bush is the main one. Hobby is much smaller.
“It’s not called “South Worst” by employees for nothing.”
Not very original. Air West was nicknamed Air Worst right after the merger of Bonanza, West Coast and Pacific Airlines.
Original for our group.
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