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Anyone know what the current plans are for your hiring? Last I heard you were hiring classes for the forseeable future. Is that still the plan?

Thanks.

Disclaimer: If SWA hires a few hundred a year and Airtran hires a few hundred a year, could make the SLI Agreement more palatable which ever way it goes.
 
Read some of the other posts if you have time, it's all there on the information you seek. Basically we've been told all classes after Oct have been put on hold. The hiring will come from the Southwest side for now.
 
meanstreak said:
Read some of the other posts if you have time, it's all there on the information you seek. Basically we've been told all classes after Oct have been put on hold. The hiring will come from the Southwest side for now.
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Thanks for the info. Some of these threads have become so long, I lose interest after page 5. :)
 
If AAI ops is kept seperate for 2 years, wouldn't that means Airtran will have to keep the hiring going to staff the ops?
 
No, because all future AirTran deliveries will go to SWA and not AirTran (except for the 2 717s coming early next year). It appears all future AirTran 737 deliveries will be configured in the SWA configuration (paint and interiors) and be delivered to SWA after the deal is closed early next year. That is the reason SWA is starting classes in January.
 
SWA was a *little* tight on staffing for the summer, but the first of the hiring they're doing is timed a little early for summer flying (they'll be online by March), and just "happens" to coincide with the first of the 737 deliveries that "WE" we hiring for but had our hiring put on hold as it now appears SWA will get our 737 deliveries instead of us.

Certainly we'll have 30 or so F/O's who won't upgrade because of it, and 150 or so poolies who now won't get class dates. It's unknown whether Southwest will accept our poolies into their pool or flush our pool completely after DOCC; I would imagine that's a little far down the priority list of our respective Merger Committees.
 
Lear70 said:
and just "happens" to coincide with the first of the 737 deliveries that "WE" we hiring for but had our hiring put on hold as it now appears SWA will get our 737 deliveries instead of us.
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I'm guessing this is because of SWAPA's contract. Basically, any aircraft bought by SWA has to be flown by a Southwest pilot on the SWA seniority list.
 
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More than likely it simply has to do with economics...

They're going to bring the airplanes on anyway, no reason to paint and do interior twice... that gets rather expensive rather quickly.

Either way, the senior F/O's at AirTran who would have upgraded are a little irritated at the moment. I can't even imagine what the poolies are going through right now not knowing if they're going to get really hosed or not. :(
 
i hope SWA at least offers our poolies an interview... but who knows... i'm a little bummed cause I was expecting to upgrade soon, but this move was to be expected. I also heard that SWA put down a 30 million bond to reserve 37 gates in ATL, does anyone know anything about that? How many gates do we have now, 25 or so? If this is true, that means that SWA is expecting to expand in ATL by about 50% - not including their higher gate utilization. Should be a good growth opportunity for SWA.

Good luck to everyone!
 
Lear70 said:
SWA was a *little* tight on staffing for the summer, but the first of the hiring they're doing is timed a little early for summer flying (they'll be online by March), and just "happens" to coincide with the first of the 737 deliveries that "WE" we hiring for but had our hiring put on hold as it now appears SWA will get our 737 deliveries instead of us.
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WN was WAY SHORT this summer. Matter of fact we are JA'ing at least the Captain side of the house tomorrow - in OCTOBER.

The classes "we" are having in January are for our March schedule whichs adds 184 flts/day to the existing schedule.

Gup
 
Not to mention the fact that SWA is receiving 14 new 737's of their own which may or may not (considering the new future) be used to replace -300's. My guess is the need for poolies to dry off at SWA is due to internal needs for the March schedule as Gup said. More SWA poolies will likely follow for their Summer schedule. Hiring needs beyond that are probably a work in progress, for either Company, at this point.
 
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Ualexpress said:
No, because all future AirTran deliveries will go to SWA and not AirTran (except for the 2 717s coming early next year). It appears all future AirTran 737 deliveries will be configured in the SWA configuration (paint and interiors) and be delivered to SWA after the deal is closed early next year. That is the reason SWA is starting classes in January.
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The reason that SWA is doing hiring in Jan is because of the new flying at EWR, GSP, and CHS. These cities were announced and the hiring planned before the AirTran announcement. In fact the hiring was announced the same hour that AirTran was announced. Additionaly SWA bought 3 used 700s months ago for this additional flying. So none of these new aircraft or hiring has anything to do with the buying of AirTran!
 
737tanker said:
The reason that SWA is doing hiring in Jan is because of the new flying at EWR, GSP, and CHS. These cities were announced and the hiring planned before the AirTran announcement. In fact the hiring was announced the same hour that AirTran was announced. Additionaly SWA bought 3 used 700s months ago for this additional flying. So none of these new aircraft or hiring has anything to do with the buying of AirTran!
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Good news!
Any idea where SW will be flying out
of CHS?
 

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