MarylandONE, could you please explain your statement about the PD weeding out the weak. This goes against the statements made here recently by other SWA peeps who are contending that the PD is not much more than paper shufflers witn NO input into the decision.
If your statement is correct, (BTW, I think you are but have no inside info to confirm my belief) then the PD has much more power than any current SWA pilot/FI poster is willing to admit. It seems to me, that if you are correct, the PD is in complete control if they have total control of who is put before the
DB.
Either everyone who passes the three interviews goes before the DB, or they don't. If they don't, then any discussion we have here concerning the SWA PD is fair game.
I realize that most of us have forgotten this, but this IS the FI Major Airline INTERVIEW forum.
To all of you SWA peeps who passed your interview and are here to help. Thank You. To you SWA boys here to fight ad nauseum, go fly another couple of trips and go spend the day on your ranch. Because it doesn't matter to us wanna-be's how much you protest our perceived errors, we don't really care. We are going to continue to attempt to achieve the same success as yourself and if that means spending too much time on this forum studying the minutia of your processes, so be it.
For myself, I understand that this is an anonymous forum and having been around here for way too many years, I don't take anything personal. I'd suggest that you men do the same. Seriously, if I say your PD sucks, does it really matter? Will my anonymous opinion really change anything, or effect anyone in the PD? If I say that your PD is the best in the world and they all deserve a 100% pay raise, will Colleen give it to them because some anonymous guy going by enigma on the internet said to give it to em? I don't think so.
I know that you are proud of your employer. I respect that and would be proud to join you in being proud, but don't let us wanna-be's get your goat. We aren't trying to, and the anti-SWA guys who are trying to get you riled up aren't worth your time.
regards,
enigma