SWA Enters PHL-BOS market...fares 1/10th of US Air

[GuppyWN]

Furloughs suck dude. Sorry to hear that.
Fork over several thousand, and you might be able to apply at southwest.
They like hiring folks that pay for their jobs.
Good luck in the job market

$200,000 a year for a $7000 type rating. I'd call that an investment - not pay for training. But that's just my opnion.

Gup

 

[shagadelic]

$200,000 a year for a $7000 type rating. I'd call that an investment - not pay for training. But that's just my opnion.

Gup

Slacker, you need to pick up a little more!

 

[waveflyer]

Guys(!) why respond?

 

[redflyer65]

Guppy, why the low pay? You dropping trips again?

 

[WSurf]

Furloughs suck dude. Sorry to hear that.
Fork over several thousand, and you might be able to apply at southwest.
They like hiring folks that pay for their jobs.
Good luck in the job market

Didn't we all really kinda pay for our job??? How much money did you spend in you're flight training??? Unless you were military then you paid for you're job.

I would tend to think many of us would pay for the Type rating to work at Southwest.

 

[PropPiedmont]

Furloughs suck dude. Sorry to hear that.
Fork over several thousand, and you might be able to apply at southwest.
They like hiring folks that pay for their jobs.
Good luck in the job market

I had to spend about $50K to be able to apply at Piedmont. I spent absolutely no more money to be able to apply at Southwest.

 

[GuppyWN]

Slacker, you need to pick up a little more!

I low-balled trying to be polite! I was making a point - not a statement.

Gup

 

[MILPILOT17]

I low-balled trying to be polite! I was making a point - not a statement.

Gup

And I thought you were low-balling for the IRS?

 

[dcfu69]

Easy Fix! US Airways Buys 40 Dash 8 Q400's and sells tickets at 50.00 a pop!

Just got back from recurrent.... USairways is SERIOUSLY looking into buying the next set of 15 Q's here at Colgan( 2011-2012 timeframe I think). Then again, this is just a recurrent kool-aid rumor spoken from our VP of flt ops....we all know how reliable company rumors are. I really hope it dont pan out. We certainly do not deserve them for the payrates we have.... Hopefully Pmont ponies up and gets some new planes. Yall are certainly due for some new birds!

 

[Beaver79]

$200,000 a year for a $7000 type rating. I'd call that an investment - not pay for training. But that's just my opnion.

Gup

shack!!!

 

[Tejas-Jet]

He is talking about having to buy your type to get hired...

"....having to buy your type to get hired" ???

At SWA, There is no requirement to "buy" a type prior to getting hired.....truthfully, SWA really doesn't care where or how an applicant got their type.

 

[AirCobra]

I can remember a FA telling me that SWA would never make it in the Northeast because they "couldn't fly in snow". See, that FA made a prediction too....based on.... ?

It's not flying in the snow that Southwest has the problem with, it's landing in the snow....or in Burbank.

Sorry I couldn't resist. Luv Ya!

 

[GuppyWN]

Sorry I couldn't resist. Luv Ya!

Yeah you could have. Blame us all you want for Burbank but leave Joshua Woods out of it.

Low blow my friend that was unwarranted.

Gup

 

[F/O]

SW should be thanked for not lowering the bar further by adding more parasite RJs to the mix...

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Just got back from recurrent.... USairways is SERIOUSLY looking into buying the next set of 15 Q's here at Colgan( 2011-2012 timeframe I think). Then again, this is just a recurrent kool-aid rumor spoken from our VP of flt ops....we all know how reliable company rumors are. I really hope it dont pan out. We certainly do not deserve them for the payrates we have.... Hopefully Pmont ponies up and gets some new planes. Yall are certainly due for some new birds!

Won't and can't happen. There is no scope relief for the Q400, as much as we would like to see them here at PDT. A mix of ATR42/72 is much more likely and I am pretty sure they won't be going to Colgan if they ever happen at all. Bombardier now has a program in place that will allow us to take the mighty old dash out to 120,000 cycles.

 

[dcfu69]

wow. 120k? what do the HA tail numbers have on them now? How long will that keep them in service?

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

The highest cycle dashes have about 80K now. How long until 120K? No idea... Several years I would imagine.