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translation: getting ready to roll over and take it up the a$$.
If taking it up the rear means making 6 figures and working 3 days a week sign me and the 14 million other unemployed up!
Never fails to amaze me how out of touch Union members are with the average wage earner making $40,000 per year.
 
But SWA is the envy of the industry and has been for going on a couple decades so people will dig up any distant negatives to try and cut them down a peg.


SWA was not very well known (outside of TX) 15 years ago.
 
Never fails to amaze me how out of touch Union members are with the average wage earner making $40,000 per year.

Whoa big fella.

The major pilots are earning about 70% less than they did in the seventies. That is a constant slide backwards. Not good. A professional is paid on their education and experience. Being tied to a company is what makes pilots different.

If you include the regional pilot flying 70 to 90 seat jets that percentage is much less. We need to stay in touch, ALWAYS, of what our profession SHOULD be paying us.
 
Its like the tabloids. People like to see the popular go down.

But SWA is the envy of the industry and has been for going on a couple decades so people will dig up any distant negatives to try and cut them down a peg.

I fly on SWA a couple times a month on business and the feedback I am getting from the passengers are they still prefer SWA to any airline and fly them whenever possible.

I have to agree. The employees are friendly as a whole where I find the legacies not to be.

SWA has hired personalities since day one. No matter what is thrown their way the attitudes will not change. There is a wild card with the Airtran folks. But the company is too smart to assume they are not ready for this employee group. Given their history, some of the Airtran employees will lose their jobs because of their attitudes and make an example out of those unwise individuals in the work group they represent which will get the attention of the other Airtran employees. SWA flogs their misfits in public to keep the others in line with common sense limitations. Agree with this or not, it is extremely effective.

I have or actively consulted with six different airlines. And I can say personally that SWA's people are far different than the others.

Try 8 years. Southwest has been the place to work for the last 8 years. It was a terrible place to work (relatively speaking to the majors) for its first 20+ years in existence. I will agree with you though that people like to see the popular go down. I personally am jealous at how much more money the Southwest pilots make than me. I don't want to see Southwest go down. I want to see my airline go up. I want to make more than the Southwest pilots are currently making.
 
If taking it up the rear means making 6 figures and working 3 days a week sign me and the 14 million other unemployed up!
Never fails to amaze me how out of touch Union members are with the average wage earner making $40,000 per year.

In 2015 you mean......for most trannies anyway. They really did get the shaft the second time around. Makes you feel great, doesn't it? You'll always be a tranny in their eyes, don't forget it! They won't. And it sure was great of THEIR management to hammer them. Ah, no biggie, right?


Godspeed!


OYS
 
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I personally am jealous at how much more money the Southwest pilots make than me. I don't want to see Southwest go down. I want to see my airline go up. I want to make more than the Southwest pilots are currently making.

Now that deserves a standing ovation. :beer:
 

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