puddlejumper101
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Yes, but can your body handle multiple leg days with 25 minute turns for the rest of your career? Sure, you could throw in there the time zone changes for INTL guys at Delta. Well, they could always bid back to domestic if it were wearing on them, and chose what they want to do---only turns to the Carribbean, only 4 leg 4 day trips across the country, only 2 day trips with one leg out and one back, fly only trips to Hawaii, etc. There is a VAST amount of choice, in aircraft type and type of flying, at Delta, whereas that is not the case at SWA. You can dream that maybe someday you might do some INTL flying (maybe Carribbean or Mexico, but unlikely Europe unless ATA does it according to Kelly), but you really are only dreaming.....now hurry up it is time to board and you still have to help clean the plane, get the clearance, and run and try to find some food before your flights LAS, SMF, PDX, GEG, and BOI! It is fun there at SWA, no doubt!
Bye Bye--General Lee
of course no SWA thread would be complete without the General's ASSessment of what happens at SWA. You know I wish we could poll all Delta pilots and SWA pilots and ask them if they would like to trade jobs. I fed Delta for six years...talked to many DAL pilots...sat on many of their jumpseats and heard it more than once how if they could they would run to SWA. SWA is not for everyone...but neither is DAL. I still think that a decision based on current pay...or current routes is naive. That will change at both carriers many times in an average 25-35 year carreer. Flying a jetliner is inherantly boring after many years of doing it no matter who you work for. In any other industry when someone is offered a job with two different companies doing the same thing, people usually choose the one with better benefits and corporate culture. Pilots, however, are different...I think ego and status tends to set in way quicker for a pilot than most other professionals. A job is just a job...flying to LBB or CDG is just that...flying. A 737, CRJ, and 777 all fly the same...feel the same and at 30,000 feet size is indifferent. I always thought the company was more important in choosing an employer than the size of their airplanes...in most professions that is true, but us pilots tend to be way too arrogant for that.