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    SWA Interview: Hotel and Transportation Questions

    Be cautious! When you go down to the bar, realize that you are most likely in earshot of the very folks who will interview you. I was in town for a PC last week and was talking to a guy that does interviews and he mentioned that every now and then interviewees say something they later regret...
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    Apple computers and SWA & Fedex

    Apple works at SWA It is true that SWA's computer system is Windows based. However, there is an extremely intelligent SWA FO that has written the Mac software necessary to do MAESTRO without the need for Virtual PC. He has also written a very user friendly Bid program as well. To get the...
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    Finally finished training at SWA (MAY 10 CLASS)

    Tidbit for SWA New Hires For those of you guys/gals just finishing up. "This is technique only," but if you don't happen to get your first choice of base you may want to consider the following. Imagine you wanted MDW for August (because you live there), but you got OAK(because it's junior)...
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    Newby life at SWA

    2nd year pay Just a little thought or two on geting that 2nd year pay. I understand the concern you have regarding giving away your whole line as a first year guy, but consider these thoughts. Approximately 53 trips at second year pay is enough to replace 90 trips of first year pay. There...
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    SWA jumpseating

    Maj and any others interested in the recip. agreement with SWA. Here's some info I found in my Logbook concerning our Jumpseat coordinator, the name may be dated but the contact info should be good. Let us know if you and "your people" have any luck. Sure would be great if everyone could...
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    SWA 6.36% raise 9/1

    Yes it can be confusing, and I didn't explain it clearly enough. It really warrants a discussion realtime. But here goes on another explanation attempt. Step 1: As a first year guy you would want to put the reserve block up for GA (ie click on the red RSV block bar, and highlight the...
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    SWA Question....

    The earliest I've ever pushed is 0535 local, FLL-TPA. My eyes were almost red on that one. I bet you could get some late stories from the PM flyers out there following wx delays etc... but not "scheduled" flying. PM Folks, Please tell us a PM story.
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    SWA 6.36% raise 9/1

    This note is mostly for 1st year guys looking for 2nd year pay, but also may be a good read for others able to help them. If you want to try to maximize your availability to pick up second year pay you need to attempt to clear your board. I know what you're thinking, who would want a 4 day...
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    Southwest - WHY no assigned seats?

    Forgive me if someone already mentioned the answer to the original question, but... IMHO we board the way we do because the "cattle car" boarding process encourages a behavior that SWA desires. That is, people ready and willing to board when we say go, so they can get something they desire...
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    SWA (How long to get the base you want)

    Sorry it took so long to get the info. As predicted the April vacancy bid really spread out our new folks. Here's the base list from least senior to most senior, the class date of the most junior person and finally how many classes are behind that junior guy. Note: there was a 17 Feb class of...
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    SWA Bases for New Hires

    MLBWINGBORN, I'll bet a case you'll get BWI in April. Looking forward to meeting you.
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    Like numbers? SWA Bases by FO Seniority

    After reading the post regarding where our New Hires go and how long it takes to get to a certain base I decided to do some homework before posting a second response. The first set of numbers is the number of FOs per base and the class date of the most junior FO bidding at that base. DAL 182...
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    SWA Bases for New Hires

    The FO Base seniority listed above is accurate for now but I believe that the April vacancy bid which closes on 27 Feb and posts the following day may shake things up a bit. There will be a plus up of 20 in BWI and 15 in MCO. The typical vacancy pluses and minuses per base are 2-4. For those...
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    BWI Aviation Medical Examiners..

    BWI Fisrt class medical Doc DONALD HISLOP 31 ROBINSON ROAD, SEVERNA PARK MD 21146 (301) 647-4242 Just west of Route 2 in Severna Park next to the B&A bike trail (15-20 min from BWI). As someone else said, relatively painless first class for $80. He is a retired Navy Doc and he's on the...
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    SWA changes in the works..

    4106 on the list as of 10/26/2002. Not sure how Mil Leave and Medical guys factor into the pilot to aircraft ratio, but I'll let you guys run the statistical possibilities. Glad to see the hiring future here beginning to brighten again. It's a great job so hurry up.
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    SWA class date and size July/August..

    Just back from the training center in Dallas. I stopped by PD and all Lindsay could confirm was the 15 July class. Confirmation on the last post, the new sim is up and running but needs to be certified. The sim availability doesn't seem to be an issue due to the absense of a NH class. The...
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    SWA Earns $21.1 Million 1st Qtr 02

    Good Afternoon folks, this is the Flight Ops Newsline for Friday, April 19, 2002. I'm sure most you have heard by now that Southwest Airlines was profitable in the first quarter. We announced earnings of approximately 3¢ a share, which equates to a $21.4 million profit. This is almost $100...
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    NO SWA Summer School

    I believe it would be wise to wait until the first quarter stats are released before putting to much weight behind recent statements that are flying around. The bottom line is and always will be based on the almighty dollar. Give it a week or so following the release. The dust will settle and...
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    Flying For SW out of BWI

    I've been with SWA since Jul and we just bought a house in Westminster. It's 45 mins to the employee lot. York is about 1+05-1+15. Better for the tax situation if you can get across to PA, but I prefer to be a little closer. Annapolis is awesome, but it'll cost you, and it can get pretty...
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    Numbers from the SWA lounge

    145 Pilot interviews scheduled for the month of March. Feb 14th and 28th classes each composed of 24 pilots and 2 Sim instructors. Next DB is 13 Mar with one other later in the month, probably 27 Mar (just a guess). 11.7 percent profit sharing for the year 2001. Gotta run.
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