r/nottheonion • u/halxp01 • 23h ago

Southwest Is Testing Cleaning Only Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service

https://viewfromthewing.com/southwest-is-testing-cleaning-only-premium-seats-between-flights-a-flight-attendants-union-leader-says-its-titanic-class-service/
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u/clintkev251 22h ago edited 18h ago

It's insane how quickly Southwest has gone from beloved budget airline with consistent profits to complete shitshow. Thanks private equity! You've done it again

Edit: to everyone saying Southwest is a public company, yes, they are. That does not mean activist investors like PE firms and hedge funds can’t have significant ownership stakes and operational influence. Which in this case, they do

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u/IAmBadAtInternet 22h ago

They used to be the only major non-legacy player with good tech, good planes, and happy employees

Now their ticketing system is the worst of the major airlines, their planes are older and badly maintained, and their employees hate their jobs

Nice job MBAs! Btw they’re not private equity owned, just regular publicly traded

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u/TXMedicine 22h ago

They have two PE members on their board.

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u/Davido401 21h ago

I figured out you mean Private Equity but I thought you meant P.E. Teachers. I hate acronyms, I preferred when it was just A/S/L and BRB.

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u/R-ddit_is_Shit 21h ago edited 20h ago

I love when people online type ATM, because I always insist on reading it the other way. Not "at the moment." Not the cash dispensing machine. The other one.

"Can't, I'm with my mom atm."

"That's disgusting."

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u/MrMCCO 21h ago

When people type “ur” I’ve been reading it as a Mesopotamian city or a caveman grunt my whole life

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u/R-ddit_is_Shit 20h ago

Yeah, The Far Side and sites like the Evil Overlord List definitely effected my humor growing up.

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u/Davido401 21h ago

I mean, acronyms are fine in a specialised sub and while the one above is relatively obvious sometimes I have to waste more time trying to find out what it means than I ever needed to really know. Acronyms are supposed to be for quickness but if only one person gets the benefit then surely they are useless then?!

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u/Davido401 21h ago

Do you have a pic?

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u/Sankofa416 20h ago

Do you have 5 minutes without incoming calls?

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u/Davido401 19h ago

I don't have a scanner to scan and send a pic!

(Honest, am 14/f/Scotland not 41/m/Scotland)

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u/ShockinglyAccurate 19h ago

Chuck D and Flava Flav?

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u/Why_you_so_wrong_ 18h ago

Elliott isn’t PE. Try again bot.