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Old Dec 20, 2025 | 4:21 pm
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kennycrudup
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Originally Posted by Troopers
... Southwest operates in a capalistic country and like all for-profit companies seek ways to increase profit: this is the way.
Originally Posted by uastarflyer
Which is why Elliott forced the Gary Kelly regime idiots to wake up and join the revenue upsell game.
Nah, I was talking about @deltheking 's (missed-his-point-IMo) post about "Deregulation" when the topic was "baggage fees".

I get the "competition", "capitalism" and "share-pricing" reasons for all this- but I seriously believe that once the dust settles and the shares do go up, Elliott group will pump-and-dump WN stock like it was radioactive and leave the airline in a worse position than before all these changes, and now since the operating culture is just like the legacies, get bought by one ... I pray I'm hella wrong about this, though.

... and as my refrain goes, all these changes to me just mean I'm gonna end up spending a lot more money just to have what I had before 😕
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