Flight Attendant

notsonew, on 27 February 2012 - 09:47 PM, said:

Umm, i don't know if SWA is the best, but I'll tell you, AA is the worst! And I don't think any other airline is better...come on. Look at whats happening at United, NWA, AA..they are in shambles..Employees are completely demeaned, not respected, and have low pay. I would go to SWA in a minute! $25 an hr for f/a to begin with? Yeah, I'm only making about $9 an hr more after 24 yrs of loyalty. Management taking pensions away, no benefits, breaking contracts and overall treating us like we are burden. AA CEO said that the flight attendants "were the bricks in the backpack of AMR". REALLY? The CEO of SWA looks upon his employees as the backbone of his company. Simple enough, employees are happy, customers will be happy. I would love to get hired with them, but I don't know if they will hire a 50 something flight attendant. It sucks

Let me ask you a hypothetical question notsonew,.. A completely unrealistic scenario I know, but suppose Southwest were to acquire AA. The terms of the acquisition of the flight attendant group are basically that you come over to Southwest, are given a substantial pay raise than what you currently make as well as all sorts of other "quality of life" improvements, but you take a bit of a hit on seniority... This is a made up scenario so in this case the call is YOURS to make. Do you take it or leave it? That's all I want to know.