The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Bob_Roller on July 08, 2008, 07:30:22 PM
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Just thought I'd pass along a little information that I got from a co-worker yesterday.
He was in Dallas, TX for a company banquet for employees with 15, 20 25, 30 and 35 years with the company.
For a little background info, I work for Southwest Airlines in Phoenix,AZ, as an aircraft mechanic.
There are presentations during this banquet, and this year there was one from our ' Pass Bureau', it's kind of like a company sponsered travel agency for interline agreements between airlines and other travel related companies.
Well, the advice that was given, was to avoid air travel during the Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years holidays.
With the reduction of flights and available seats, starting just after the Labor Day holiday the first week of September, the best that can be said is this is going to be a horrible experience for everyone involved, and this is before you add the wild card of major winter storms to add to the chaos.
It was stated that with the published reduction of capacity of the industry, that it is the equivalent of having a major airline going out of business.
If there are major disruptions due to weather, you may have to wait a WEEK or two, not a few days for this to get sorted out and things back on normal schedule !!!
And this doesn't even address the possibility of a major air carrier in the US ceasing operations due to financial problems that are rampant in the airline industry today.
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...and ol' Herb K, aka Elvis, done went and retired on you.
Love Field and Southwest are just down the street from me. Love 'em. I buy the stock.
Few years ago, we were flying back to Dallas on S'West after a long weekend at PIR watching the NASCAR cats go fast and turn left. The flight home was on Haloween night and the cabin crew were dressed in costumes and getting the passengers involved in silly games with S'West trinkets for prizes. I loved it!
Shared this story with a Delta captain who's a flying buddy of mine. He told me that if a Delta flight crew did something like that, they would likely get fired. He said the Delta operation is way uptight. Recently went bankrupt and merged to fly again... as I recall.
The only flying I do these days is Private/VFR or USAF.
Monte
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USAF, Monte?
Ed
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USAF, Monte?
Ed
For really too many years, I have been a volunteer member of the United States Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol. I'm a rated pilot and presently hold the grade of O-4/Major. Have been involved in SAR missions, DEA patrols -some stories there!-, Homeland Security missions, disaster relief, USAF low-level training route surveys, a few fire watch patrols and the Columbia Shuttle recovery taskforce.
Uncle Sugar provides the aircraft, fuel and maintenance costs, etc. We are tasked for missions that USAF is not presently equipped to handle. A force multiplier is the PC description. Typical USAF... for every hour of flight time, there's 4-5 hours, or more, of briefings and paperwork.
My unit, the 413th Nighthawk Composite Squadron, is proud to say that not a single MiG has penetrated Texas airspace and attacked the Alamo. HUA! [smiley=lolk.gif]
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"My unit, the 413th Nighthawk Composite Squadron, is proud to say that not a single MiG has penetrated Texas airspace and attacked the Alamo. HUA! "
This takes a great load off my chest - now I can sleep at night!
BTW the Russian airforce has on several occasions penetrated Danish airspace - we need help!
greetings from a grey but warm north
trolle
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I didn't think Danish airspace was big enough to penetrate!