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New Southwest CEO on bag fees, change fees, assigned seats: 'It's not like we are changing the DNA of the company'
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly has been asked countless times over the past decade whether the airline might join its competitors in charging for checked bags. His answers have ranged from never say never to, in recent years, an emphatic defense of its bags-fly-free policy in the face of billions in revenue rivals collect from checked-bag fees. At least a few times, he went so far as to say bags will remain free as long as he's CEO. (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Southwest will always get my business first because 1) no bag fees, 2) no change fees, 3) open seating, 4) competitive fare pricing. In addition, I have on-time experiences and shorter delays when there are issues. I love SWA!
If it ain't broken, don't try to fix it!! Good on ya Southwest!
There are too many examples of a winning product/service strategy that doesn't follow the market and ends up dying or a fraction of once they once were -- Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, Sears, Kmart, etc. I hope Southwest never rests on its laurels and is always questioning their profit model, even during good times.
Kmart & Sears ONLY died because Eddie Lampert INTENTIONALLY put them in bankruptcy so he could sell off the pieces.... just another repugnant DESTROYING America.
Meanwhile the retards watch faux news and believe the Alternative "Facts"... sad, really sad!!
Meanwhile the retards watch faux news and believe the Alternative "Facts"... sad, really sad!!
Yes, he very intentionally bled Sears dry. Sears was all set for the coming decades, in that they actually OWNED the vast majority of their store property. So Mr Wall Street Parasite created a 'holding company' and 'sold' all of Sears property to that company, and then spun that holding company off.
What did that do?
For the first time in DECADES, Sears had to pay rent for the property they already owned. And rent, in many cases, above market rates. That holding company made Mr Wall Street Parasite and his parasite friends billions of dollars over the years.
Mr Wall Street Parasite also divided Sears into 'turfs' and had all those groups competing against each other, and at each others throats. He also cut to near 0 the money spent in maintenance and upkeep of their stores. Then he bought K-Mart. The local K-Mart here had the roof collapse, seriously, and instead of repairing it, they built walls around the damage!
Yeah, the Wall Street sect are pissing on every working American, and they think it's just rain, and vociferously support them, and the ultra-rich as if they have a seat at the table.
HAH! They don't even have a place UNDER the table! It's damned embarrassing to see Fox News, OANN, and all the usual right wing networks playing their viewers for suckers. Tucker Carlson is a multimillionaire who gets paid high 6 figures to keep his mouth breathing viewers uninformed at how bad they really have it, and how much worse it's going to get if they aren't stopped.
What did that do?
For the first time in DECADES, Sears had to pay rent for the property they already owned. And rent, in many cases, above market rates. That holding company made Mr Wall Street Parasite and his parasite friends billions of dollars over the years.
Mr Wall Street Parasite also divided Sears into 'turfs' and had all those groups competing against each other, and at each others throats. He also cut to near 0 the money spent in maintenance and upkeep of their stores. Then he bought K-Mart. The local K-Mart here had the roof collapse, seriously, and instead of repairing it, they built walls around the damage!
Yeah, the Wall Street sect are pissing on every working American, and they think it's just rain, and vociferously support them, and the ultra-rich as if they have a seat at the table.
HAH! They don't even have a place UNDER the table! It's damned embarrassing to see Fox News, OANN, and all the usual right wing networks playing their viewers for suckers. Tucker Carlson is a multimillionaire who gets paid high 6 figures to keep his mouth breathing viewers uninformed at how bad they really have it, and how much worse it's going to get if they aren't stopped.
I am reaching the point whereby Socialism (with ALL of its faults) is becoming more and more attractive AND Capitalism less and less. We have become a very selfish nation whereby this is the norm and glorified.