SWA "dings" up 321M profit!

[rajflyboy]

this argument is silly and old.

good job WN- you are successful b/c each employee (pilot's included) understands it's up to YOU to keep the culture and profit going-- Everyone on this board thinks that things change and they are complete victims to that change. Things change for a reason--and each of us are not absent from that reason. SWA teaches their employees that herb and colleen and gary cannot make a culture-- but each employee can.
Part of that is they want their employees invested in the company-- and invested greatly (IE: Their own sweat, work, and seniority if they got another company to get the type- and/or their own cold hard cash if they chose to buy it.) Their success is based on the old byrd baggett quote- "there will always be a shortage of people who will do the job right and on time- therefore, success in the long run is fairly simple." But the opportunity to complain at WN is there just like at our jobs-- then they remember how invested they are and how well they are treated=- and they nut up and get the job done. That's the difference and that's why they end up kicking our tails every time they're put to the test.

Thats why I call you "The Love Machine". There is just too much Love Going around over there at SWA.

 

[MILPILOT17]

So which is it? They do make you have a type or they don't? You can't have it both ways. This Type Rating cost good cold cash you know!

Seek professional help! Remember in grade school when you had to read something and actually remember certain things about what you just read? The concept of the SWA type requirement isn't that hard! The END!

 

[scoreboardII]

Answer up kid

rajflyboy, did you pay for your 152/172 time? Your CFI? Your instrument/multi?

Thats PAY FOR TRAINING based on your warped definition. Thankfully you are wrong.

I am betting your first job had some minimum experience requirement like multi time, night, instrument. Right? That is not pay for training.

Pay for training is signing an employment contract. No SWA employee signs a contract. Pay for training is working for a period of time agreed upon by you and your employer to "pay back" training they give you, or else you owe them money. No SWA pilot owes SWA any money.

Another pay for training option is for them to deduct pay to cover their expense in training you. No one at SWA pays to work here. Lastly, Pay for training results in your indebtedness if you leave the job early as in you quit to go somewhere else. No one at SWA will owe a dime if they walk out of class the first day. No one, it's not pay for training kid.

 

[rajflyboy]

rajflyboy, did you pay for your 152/172 time? Your CFI? Your instrument/multi?

Thats PAY FOR TRAINING based on your warped definition. Thankfully you are wrong.

I am betting your first job had some minimum experience requirement like multi time, night, instrument. Right? That is not pay for training.

Pay for training is signing an employment contract. No SWA employee signs a contract. Pay for training is working for a period of time agreed upon by you and your employer to "pay back" training they give you, or else you owe them money. No SWA pilot owes SWA any money.

Another pay for training option is for them to deduct pay to cover their expense in training you. No one at SWA pays to work here. Lastly, Pay for training results in your indebtedness if you leave the job early as in you quit to go somewhere else. No one at SWA will owe a dime if they walk out of class the first day. No one, it's not pay for training kid.

Come on man. You have to go out and "BUY" a Type rating to work at SWA. Do you think we are Fools. It is what it is. I don't care what you sign or don't sign. Call it Buy a Job, Pay for training, call it what ever you want.

I will leave you guys alone now in your world full of "LUV"

 

[Sy-bill]

Come on man. You have to go out and "BUY" a Type rating to work at SWA. Do you think we are Fools. It is what it is. I don't care what you sign or don't sign. Call it Buy a Job, Pay for training, call it what ever you want.

I will leave you guys alone now in your world full of "LUV"

Don't work for SWA so no dog in this fight.

Did you not go out and "BUY" your instrument rating also? Assuming your not a military pilot of course.

From the outside looking in, you do appear to be foolish.

 

[The Prussian]

I will leave you guys alone now in your world full of "LUV"

Go ahead....make our day.

 

[GuppyWN]

I bought my type rating.............

and I'll make north of 200k this year.

Questions?

Gup

 

[Cobra17]

Come on man. You have to go out and "BUY" a Type rating to work at SWA. Do you think we are Fools. It is what it is. I don't care what you sign or don't sign. Call it Buy a Job, Pay for training, call it what ever you want.

I will leave you guys alone now in your world full of "LUV"

Only a fool would actually pay for flight training in order to someday get an airline job.

Raja, this ain't the same company in the back of Rolling Stone where you bought all your college term papers from.

I know of several folks who really wanted to work for SWA, paid to get their 737 type and, unfortunately, were not hired.

 

[Whataburger]

Only a fool would actually pay for flight training in order to someday get an airline job.

They say that there is a fine line between Genius and Crazy, but isn't your post a little heavy fisted? There is only one place some of us wanted to work, and you're calling the act of chasing a dream foolish? There is no reason to pursue something with anything less than 150% effort.