{"id":1623,"date":"2009-08-14T03:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2011-02-18T03:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:23:03","slug":"southwest-loses-bid-for-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Loses Bid for Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/aviationblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/the-lowdown-from-swapas-kuwitz.html\" target=\"_blank\">An insightful letter to SWA&#8217;s pilots from SWAPA President Carl Kuwitzky<\/a>. This letter includes lots of behind-the-scenes details, much of which I didn&#8217;t realize. Again, I have no opinions to offer publicly, but this is worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>===============================<\/p>\n<p>I nearly blew a gasket when I saw the news:<\/p>\n<p>For a few hours I seethed, complained, planned angry email, and developed a stress knot in my neck. I wanted to wring someone&#8217;s neck, and I knew exactly which neck I wanted to wring. Jenny tried to reason with me, and I wouldn&#8217;t have it. The bid and its failure resonates with some of my deepest and strongest beliefs, making these events a recipe for levels of emotion I don&#8217;t normally feel.<\/p>\n<p>I finally prayed, read a bunch on the topic, and gained some perspective. While I still think the failure of our bid is a travesty and blame all sorts of people for it, I finally realized that life truly does go on. I never wrote my angry email. I can think about things other than Frontier. Everyone involved in the bid probably learned some things, and so did I. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: An insightful letter to SWA&#8217;s pilots from SWAPA President Carl Kuwitzky. This letter includes lots of behind-the-scenes details, much of which I didn&#8217;t realize. Again, I have no opinions to offer publicly, but this is worth reading. =============================== I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}