SWA DB today..Let us know if you get it

[Victor120]

Knock it off

Glad to hear SWA is hiring the most qualified pilots. Nothing like some snot nosed low timer who thinks he is owed the world just because he is military. Maybe you should go build some more time before you want to try and roll with us Big Boys.

Knock it off, this kind of spew doesn't belong on this thread.

 

[Jetjockey]

Lequip, ease up there man. Do you even work for SWA??? It doesn't appear so. Give the guys a break. They are suffering from a major dissapointment, and you are not helping. If they were called in to interview, they were qualified. The fact is good people get turned down by SWA.

 

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Lequip, ease up there man. Do you even work for SWA??? It doesn't appear so. Give the guys a break. They are suffering from a major dissapointment, and you are not helping. If they were called in to interview, they were qualified. The fact is good people get turned down by SWA.

I'd like to agree, BUT. . . . . too many are getting rejected after the call. It makes one wonder if SWA isn't getting like the Dallas Cowboys of old. After finding players like Drew Pearson at small colleges, players that no one else knew of, the Cowboys decided that their system was so good that it was infallible. They got arrogant. Then they drafted some guys like Rod Hill, remember him? I thought not.

I'm really beginning to wonder if somehow SWA isn't pressing too hard in this process. You know, like trying to live up to their own press clippings.

To those who got the letter, life goes on. Maybe with less money, but things work the way they do for a reason, so keep your chin up. At least that's what I tell myself.

Luck Men,

 

[rangridr]

Regrets to the ones who got "the letter." I was in the same boat less than a year ago....everything went swell at the interview. Couldn't have had a better day and, yes, they did tell us that "they wanted to hire everyone of us if they could." I wouldn't trade the experience and getting to meet the friends at Higher Power though. Looking back, I do wish that I could have used the type money for something else and not have had to burn vacation like someone else mentioned.

I will say though that the rejection letter was the best thing that happend to me because I ended up looking at other jobs. While I love to fly it was not the be all and end all for me. Ended up taking a great engineering job and am making more than I would at SWA and am home on weekends. Works out best for me and the family and I'm happy. I am not trying to knock SWA though....I think it was not meant to be for me.

I hope that if you try there again in a year it works out for the better. If not, after you've worked through the rejection, I hope that you guys come out of it with an open mind to look at other possibilities.

Best of luck to all in the future.
Rangridr

 

[Spudbud]

Unfortunately, the pool can only get so deep. SWA sets a limit on the number of people it wants to spend the money on for the advanced background checks and pee tests that occur after the decision board. Even if 100 Steve Canyons showed up for the interview, only 30-40% (my guess based on the numbers tossed around here) would get the call to continue. Letting the pool get too large would lead to folks moving on with their life and rejecting the job offer when the phone finally did ring for a class date. Too large of a pool would eventually lead to interviews halting all together, then the company would have PD employees showing up for work for nothing to do. It is a brutally competitive, high stakes process that has become totally intense due to the dire state of the industry and the high number of qualified applicants. SWA has thrived because it has done the best to control its costs. Decisions based on dollars and cents are a grim reality in this business, my deepest condolences go out to those highly qualified folks that are victims of the economics of the situation.

 

[Jetjockey]

I'd like to agree, BUT. . . . . too many are getting rejected after the call. It makes one wonder if SWA isn't getting like the Dallas Cowboys of old.

I have to agree with you on that. It does seem like there have been lots of rejections since the new year. I'm sure that the low success rate will not stop the flow of candiates for Higher power, or K&S.

Football?????? I haven't followed it too closely since we really don't have a "professional team" here in Chicago. Well, at least not since 1985! (coincidently the BEST TEAM EVER!!!!) Discuss amonst yourselves.

 

[RedDogC130]

Well, I add to the list that got my letter today also....See you in a year....good luck to those waiting also. My letter traveled to S. Florida.

 

[Whataburger]

RedDog

Did anyone in your interview group get the call?
Rough month for us applicants.

 

[RedDogC130]

None from what I have heard.

 

[FlyAuburn]

Glad to hear SWA is hiring the most qualified pilots. Nothing like some snot nosed low timer who thinks he is owed the world just because he is military. Maybe you should go build some more time before you want to try and roll with us Big Boys.

I'd like to take a bat and swing at your little nutz, just so that you couldn't reproduce. Toolbag!

 

[RedDogC130]

Don't worry, he does not realize some of us went into the military after flying civilian for years, now we get the best of both worlds....He was probably a washout anyway. His name shoudl be ILEQUIP.....if you know what I mean

 

[semperfido]

. His name shoudl be ilequip.....

LOL...good one

 

[Gumshoe]

Glad to hear SWA is hiring the most qualified pilots. Nothing like some snot nosed low timer who thinks he is owed the world just because he is military. Maybe you should go build some more time before you want to try and roll with us Big Boys.

He's got more class than you could comprehend, Stay out of the thread. I seriously doubt you are the Captain of anything but your bathroom's toilet seat. Go get a life Ilequip. "Big Boy"

 

[Diesel-9]

Ill E Quip. Fits well. Have to defend myself. I can't think of one fellow pilot I knew in the service who ever felt he was owed anything. I spent 10 years active and 10 in the reserves and I feel it was a privilege to serve this country. Your comments on low time is meaningless. H.R. Deptartments have conversion factors based on equipment. My company hired a class of 10 that month. Interviewed 100 out of a pool of 6000+ highly qualifed canidates. Over 3500 were military backround. They were mostly a part of a 7 year group that left the service. They came from a pool of over 100,000 applicants for one of 12,000 UPT slots during that 7 year group. Of the 9,000 grads 40% left and those 3600 were in the pool. As for the the environment then, 9 out of 10 in my class were military. 7 of us were fighter backround, 29-31 with 1500 hours that converted to over 6500 hours in their eyes.On top of that is over 200 hours in simulators doing emergeny procedures. Add backround checks for security clearances, constant physicals, operating in a demanding enviornment, good references, all give the airlines a predictable canadate with a good chance to succeed. So there is alot more to a canadate than TIME. I have the most respect for my friends and all of you that came up through the civilian ranks. As you guys find out at every interview there are many people in suits dressed well and qualified. With FedEx, UPS and SWA currently moving, others will follow in this up and down industry.Keep knocking. Things will work out.

 

[Lequip]

Judging by your previous posts, your Personal Dept. let a turd slip in when they hired you and I'm sure your co-workers feel the same way. Seriously, get a life bro...It's easy hiding behind your computer and throw out childish and ridiculas comments and adding absolutely nothing to the thread.

Ok Mr. 2400 hour wonderboy. I'll add something to constructive to this tread. Certain SWA "Goons" get kickbacks from 2 of the 3 main outfits that do most of the 737 Type training. The more people that get 737 types, the more "some" people get as a kickback. A handful of "High up's" are laughing all the way to the bank as thousands and thousands buy 737 types each year and only a few hundred get hired. Wake up and smell the coffee on all this usless interviewing people. Sorry you can't afford regional pay but you have 7K to waste on a useless type. SWA thanks you for paying to play Sukah.