Originally Posted by
beachfan
Not sure lately, but Southwest pays it's flight attendants more than the union shops. But Southwest flight attendants work to clean up the plane, and get it turned around pronto. Until recently, union shops didn't allow the attendants to clean up the plane.
SWA is one of the most heavily unionized US airline. All major labor groups are unionized.
Also, Southwest has the baggage handlers waive in the planes into the gates, in union shops it was (until recently) mechanics.
I've worked for four airlines over the past 20 years. None of them routinely used mechanics to marshal the airplanes.