"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Michael" wrote:
market is destroying the unionized carriers. The $200K left-seater
is a
fading anachronism.

Actually, Southwest is unionized and they're doing great. Of course
they are not an ALPA shop, and their pilots don't make what the rest
of the industry is making. Still, they do fairly well - and Southwest
is probably a pretty good indication of where the salaries will
stabilize. Maybe.

Southwest is a very special case. It's the child of a brilliant
manager/founder. Such individuals are rare - vanishingly scarce in
publicly traded corporations.


I don't know if I would agree that SWA success was dependent on brilliance.
It seems pretty simple. SWA seems to be the only airline that realizes who
the customer is, what they want and set up a business to provide it. The
other airlines talk about restructuring but, as soon as the economy gets
good, they go back to their old ways and the cycle repeats.

Mike
MU-2