? for SWA employees

[LiveFreeorDie]

I was looking on www.ifly737.com and noticed a section called "Harry Sulley Ski Tours". $599 for five days skiing in Italy and you get to bring home a pair of skis? Unbelievable.

Do you have to be an employee of SWA to get in this package deal? Is it part of the benefits?

I am #90 on the list and hoping to get onboard this winter/spring.

Also where can I read about how the passes work? How many do I get, who can use them, etc. Also with the loads being so high is it even practicle to try to non-rev on a SWA flight with a family of 5?

Thanx for the info. ('m sure I would find out eventually, but I am bored between the Patriots and Red Sox games tonight.)

-LFD

 

[chase]

Answers

Livefree,

Haven't done the ski thing but it sounds like a good deal.

As for passes. Unlimited for you, spouse, kids from the time you're hired, again no limits.

Employee parents are also permitted unlimited passes.

Earned passes:

For each quarter you don't call in sick, you will receive 2 "Red" passes that permit non-revenue flights by any persons you wish to give the passes to. "Green passes" are the best, you can book a reservation & come home with no questions/being bumped. One can still get bumped off the flight with a red flight if revenue passengers are wishing to get on.

There have been other incentives offered in the past over the Christmas holidays that rewared no sick calls but don't know if that will be in effect this holiday season.

Hope that helps.

 

[Snoopy58]

Also with the loads being so high is it even practicle to try to non-rev on a SWA flight with a family of 5?

Big element of "it depends" there. It can be done, but you'll obviously be paying a lot more attention to the bookings than the guy who wants to nonrev with just his wife. Some days some routes, you can about forget it. Other times (right after school starts in the fall, for one) the loads are generally light. You'll have to tailor & focus your attention based on your situation (parents & 3 toddlers is way different than parents & a teenager & two grade-schoolers -- no "school" concerns for the first, but you can split the latter among 2, or even 3, flights), but there are ways to make it happen.

Once you get on the line, talk with people in the lounge & on overnights & cruising between OAK & the east coast -- see what they do, what works for them. There are ways to pull up bookings, though not in the pilot lounge (yet). You'll be able to start to build a picture of where/when/how the nonrev plan can work best for you -- much better talking with people who do it regularly than on a forum.

(Also, for what it's worth, when you nonrev with your family, you can ride up front on the cockpit jumpseat, so you would need 4 seats open in back, rather than 5.)

Feel free to PM me if you have other questions.

Snoopy

 

[LiveFreeorDie]

Thanx for the info Chase and Snoopy.