SWA class + wife having a baby

[Heavy Set]

Get to class fast and name the baby Herb. Don't let your seniority slip any more than it has to...

 

[pilotyip]

The old Navy solution

I was told when in the same situation with a baby and a deployment coming the same time "Listen sonny, you have to there for the keel laying, but you do not have to be there for the launching" There were alot of babies born with the dad's overseas.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

There were alot of babies born with the dad's overseas.

Quite a few conceived, too! Don't forget the DNA test.

 

[Jim Smyth]

Seniority is life! My father retired from American Airlines with 45 years senority. When I was born he was on his way to Dallas for PFE school. My Dad first saw me at 6 weeks of age when he returned. If he had passed on that class date to stay home for my birth he would have never been a PFE for American and would have been in Maintenance for his whole career. The guys in the last class spent many years furloughed and many never returned when called. He was in the second to last class of PFE's at American before ALPA made the FE's panal a pilot position rather than a Mechanic position. I say again, Seniority is everything, go get the number!

 

[captain caveman]

Have you considered adoption?

 

[Juvat]

Thanks everyone for the great responses. This helps to put everything in perspective. I'm sure looking forward to getting started at SWA. I would write more here, but I have to get back to studying my memory items!

 

[Russ]

Becoming a dad and bagging a job at SWA, sounds like life is coming together, congrats.