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My buddy said that the company is historically heavy on pilots in the winter since less people take vacation. That combined with a 6% reduction in flying means that they are fat on pilots.

I understand the optimism, but from what I gather, not many in the union are looking forward to any newhires until there is a flying to be had.
 
I have a few friends looking for jobs. What is competitive right now? Anyone getting interviews with only 1500 turbine pic? Thanks for the info
 
Your fuel hedges are expiring. And the ones you still have lose existing value every time oil comes down.

Your mgmt could have used your hedging advantage to build your cash position and grow your airline even more. Instead, they chose to pass your hedging savings on to the average consumer. I'm sure the passenger thanks you for that but such a tactic is going to make it much harder for SW to compete in the future, which will ultimately lead to the slow chipping away of your CBA.

Think I'm wrong? Last year YOUR CEO stated that without fuel hedges, SW would've lost money.

Now's the point where every SW pilot on flightinfo flames me for being envious of their position. Don't waste your effort, that argument has been played out too many times on here already. Time will tell who is right and that time is around the corner.

Regardless, you still have a great airline. SW treats it's employees much better than any of our airlines could even imagine to. I'm not throwing stones at your guys at all, I just think, like many analysts do, that y'all should've used those hedges to your advantage instead of passing the savings along to John Q. Public. Unfortunately, your mgmt's blunder over the past few years will affect us all in that when your contract begins to get concessioned, our mgmts will use that as a benchmark for negotiating ours.
Yawn. You're dumb and boring at the same time
 
I think my rec from Southwest check airmen will outweigh your "I think I might know this guy from FI and I don't like him" negative rec. We'll see though.
 
I think my rec from Southwest check airmen will outweigh your "I think I might know this guy from FI and I don't like him" negative rec. We'll see though.

Really...so you think knowing a check airman will get you in? Or that a few negative letters won't do you harm? You have a lot to learn. With all of this wonderful knowledge you claim to have access to, you forgot that knowing a check airman does nothing for you in the end...especially if someone knows who you are on this board. I bet you anything...and I mean anything that someone in the people dept already knows who you are. They read these posts and know more than you think.
 
Wow, you can get a job at Southwest where they pay you to surf Flightinfo? Screw flying, I want to work in the HR department. Maybe I could check out facebook pages too.

What's a job like this pay? The good news is, Flightinfo isn't getting a 6% cut in bullsh!t in January.
 
Mr "Tanker Clown",

I log onto this forum for the occasional industry information that I find interesting. I respond to threads that I find to have information that might enlighten some of the members. I am careful of my behavior on these forums that can get to be quite questionably appropriate.

I read your comments with many that I take with a grain of salt. Hiding behind a moniker, as I am doing, can make a person very brave on their opinions as well as make them appear cowardly.

There are junior Southwest Pilots that have worked their lifetime to fortunately earn a position with Southwest Airlines. They more often than not have a wife, children, elderly parents, a modest mortgage, debt and various obligations that require their income to support. Without that support many experience challenges that some of us couldn't imagine. They all, as well as we, are aware of the inherent instability of our careers.

Most of your information is not a fact. You do receive some accurate inside information that you "enhance" for effect.

Your consistent comments that infer a potential of unemployment is the equivalent of the severe messages of Al Qaeda instilling fear into the American fabric to the point of collapse. Many of todays problems America faces today are due to those acts. Its called terrorism.

I respectfully ask you as a "Man", that you discontinue the fear tactics you enlist that should have no positive influence in your own life. I also ask all who are reading this post to not use this as a method of retribution to "Tanker Clown".

Good luck to you and any future endeavors you may pursue.
 
...especially if someone knows who you are on this board. I bet you anything...and I mean anything that someone in the people dept already knows who you are. They read these posts and know more than you think.

I would think a simple IP address comparison between the IP address(es) Tanker Clown uses on this site and the IP address(es) used to log on to southwest.com would tell the PD department all they needed to know. I'd bet a good tech could run that comparison in under an hour.

That is assuming he even has an app in. What an embarassment that would be for his Check Airman buddy, again, assuming he has one.
 
The good news is, Flightinfo isn't getting a 6% cut in bullsh!t in January.

Damn, I was hoping that you would be leaving at the end of this year. Of course, that would cut out more than 6% of the BS on this forum.

But, yes, HR departments do surf for online info about people during the hiring process....yes, even facebook and most likely career specific forums.
 
Damn, I was hoping that you would be leaving at the end of this year. Of course, that would cut out more than 6% of the BS on this forum.

But, yes, HR departments do surf for online info about people during the hiring process....yes, even facebook and most likely career specific forums.

When I was in new hire class they (PD) came in and had all of our FI usernames. To a man.
 
I dont think he'll have to worry about that...they know it at the interview too...it aint that hard to narrow down ya know
 

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