SWA question

[Crash Pad]

Does SWA have any form of an Up or Out policy? As in you pass on upgrade once or twice and someone calls etc.

Rumor alert: word on the street a couple Trannies got bounced back to the tranny. Anyone else heard this?

 

[redflyer65]

I haven't heard that rumor at all.

SW does have a similiar policy for internal transfers, but I've never known it to apply to pilots. Usually like Ops Agent going to Inflight, etc. They have actually allowed those people to go back if they fail the training...but only if there is still an open position.

I know you can bypass upgrade if you want, but not sure about failing upgrade. It just doesn't really happen. Very, very rarely have they let any newhires go. You guys aren't newhires, so that shouldn't be an issue.

 

[OakRBust]

No more up or out. If you wanna be a FO, you can be as long as you choose to. As for the rumor, wouldn't know.... Haven't talked to any FA's cousins for a while.

 

[Crash Pad]

Does SWA have any form of an Up or Out policy? As in you pass on upgrade once or twice and someone calls etc.

Rumor alert: word on the street a couple Trannies got bounced back to the tranny. Anyone else heard this?

This was posted odd. They are two totally separate and unrelated questions.

 

[Citrusflyer]

This was posted odd. They are two totally separate and unrelated questions.

No...it was one question, and one order of flame-bait...

 

[Cruncher]

It's a little odd you replied to your own post. :-D

No up and out, we got rid of it a couple years ago.

No rumor of someone failing SWA training.

 

[DCitrus9]

The rumor isn't of a failure, it is that one was sent home for not drinking the koolaid.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

The rumor isn't of a failure, it is that one was sent home for not drinking the koolaid.

I would guarantee that anyone who drops a turd in the punch bowl (aka Kool Aid) is gonna hear about it, that would be a NO NO in the big D!

Later,
KBB

 

[scoreboardII]

I personally saw two FO's become "not FO's" for just such behavior.

 

[vixin]

One in my class was terminated for poor attitude during IOE.

 

[waveflyer]

Ditto-
What's the saying? Better to land gear up than be labeled a bad attitude
That's something about the culture I didn't get til I got here- its not a one way street and it's not really optional.
Like a play on Illusions- "what if your boss spoke directly to your face and commanded that you be happy in your job? What would you do?"
;-)

 

[outerlimits]

The rumor isn't of a failure, it is that one was sent home for not drinking the koolaid.

Can you be more specific, as to what they did?

 

[Bill Nelson]

This is pure rumor. No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

This is pure rumor. No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

No, but it is actually the kind of place that may send you back to "cleanse your Kool aid" and then let you try again, hopefully when given the second chance you like the "bug juice" better or who knows (do you really want to pay poker with the best poker players I know?)

Unfortunately those new hires didn't have that opportunity!

Later,
KBB

 

[Crash Pad]

This is pure rumor. No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

Tried to explain this:
Question 1: was about up or out

Question 2: is separate from 1. Did a tranny get bounced back to AirTran?