SWA question

[Crash Pad]

Does SWA have any form of an Up or Out policy? As in you pass on upgrade once or twice and someone calls etc.

Rumor alert: word on the street a couple Trannies got bounced back to the tranny. Anyone else heard this?

 

[redflyer65]

I haven't heard that rumor at all.

SW does have a similiar policy for internal transfers, but I've never known it to apply to pilots. Usually like Ops Agent going to Inflight, etc. They have actually allowed those people to go back if they fail the training...but only if there is still an open position.

I know you can bypass upgrade if you want, but not sure about failing upgrade. It just doesn't really happen. Very, very rarely have they let any newhires go. You guys aren't newhires, so that shouldn't be an issue.

 

[OakRBust]

No more up or out. If you wanna be a FO, you can be as long as you choose to. As for the rumor, wouldn't know.... Haven't talked to any FA's cousins for a while.

 

[Crash Pad]

Does SWA have any form of an Up or Out policy? As in you pass on upgrade once or twice and someone calls etc.

Rumor alert: word on the street a couple Trannies got bounced back to the tranny. Anyone else heard this?

This was posted odd. They are two totally separate and unrelated questions.

 

[Citrusflyer]

This was posted odd. They are two totally separate and unrelated questions.

No...it was one question, and one order of flame-bait...

 

[Cruncher]

It's a little odd you replied to your own post. :-D

No up and out, we got rid of it a couple years ago.

No rumor of someone failing SWA training.

 

[DCitrus9]

The rumor isn't of a failure, it is that one was sent home for not drinking the koolaid.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

The rumor isn't of a failure, it is that one was sent home for not drinking the koolaid.

I would guarantee that anyone who drops a turd in the punch bowl (aka Kool Aid) is gonna hear about it, that would be a NO NO in the big D!

Later,
KBB

 

[scoreboardII]

I personally saw two FO's become "not FO's" for just such behavior.

 

[vixin]

One in my class was terminated for poor attitude during IOE.

 

[waveflyer]

Ditto-
What's the saying? Better to land gear up than be labeled a bad attitude
That's something about the culture I didn't get til I got here- its not a one way street and it's not really optional.
Like a play on Illusions- "what if your boss spoke directly to your face and commanded that you be happy in your job? What would you do?"
;-)

 

[outerlimits]

The rumor isn't of a failure, it is that one was sent home for not drinking the koolaid.

Can you be more specific, as to what they did?

 

[Bill Nelson]

This is pure rumor. No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

This is pure rumor. No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

No, but it is actually the kind of place that may send you back to "cleanse your Kool aid" and then let you try again, hopefully when given the second chance you like the "bug juice" better or who knows (do you really want to pay poker with the best poker players I know?)

Unfortunately those new hires didn't have that opportunity!

Later,
KBB

 

[Crash Pad]

This is pure rumor. No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

Tried to explain this:
Question 1: was about up or out

Question 2: is separate from 1. Did a tranny get bounced back to AirTran?

 

[Citrusflyer]

...No Trannies are coming over as Captains.

Truer words were never spoken ...

 

[Lear70]

No AirTran pilot has been "bounced back to AirTran".

In truth, there really isn't a provision for that in the SIA.

 

[TranSporter]

I don't post on here often but I hate rumors so let me end this one.
It is not true that a transferring AT pilot got sent back. I was an AT 717 guy and am now going through the SWA school house. One guy from the first class got burned out and needed some home time. SWA was very accommodating and after a break is back in class. I don't know him personally but was told this morning he is back and ready to go.
SWA leadership told us they would bend over backwards to help each of us succeed. They have welcomed us unconditionally as have all the SWA employees. We had a class member get sick and they have worked with him to get him caught up after hours and on weekends. Everyone has treated us just the way we had hoped and better.
I am happy to be here and have put the turmoil of the acquisition behind me as have all of us that I know on this side of the partition. We are ready to do our part to keep this place rocking.
As of 7:37 this evening, there are 94 of us in training. Class 4 starts in the morning but were initiated tonight in traditional SWA fashion.

 

[texman]

I don't post on here often but I hate rumors so let me end this one.
It is not true that a transferring AT pilot got sent back. I was an AT 717 guy and am now going through the SWA school house. One guy from the first class got burned out and needed some home time. SWA was very accommodating and after a break is back in class. I don't know him personally but was told this morning he is back and ready to go.
SWA leadership told us they would bend over backwards to help each of us succeed. They have welcomed us unconditionally as have all the SWA employees. We had a class member get sick and they have worked with him to get him caught up after hours and on weekends. Everyone has treated us just the way we had hoped and better.
I am happy to be here and have put the turmoil of the acquisition behind me as have all of us that I know on this side of the partition. We are ready to do our part to keep this place rocking.
As of 7:37 this evening, there are 94 of us in training. Class 4 starts in the morning but were initiated tonight in traditional SWA fashion.

THANK YOU SIR! Good to hear. This is all we know at SWA, and this is how we roll. We have our 1 % ters, but this is how we roll.

 

[scoreboardII]

I don't post on here often but I hate rumors so let me end this one.
It is not true that a transferring AT pilot got sent back. I was an AT 717 guy and am now going through the SWA school house. One guy from the first class got burned out and needed some home time. SWA was very accommodating and after a break is back in class. I don't know him personally but was told this morning he is back and ready to go.
SWA leadership told us they would bend over backwards to help each of us succeed. They have welcomed us unconditionally as have all the SWA employees. We had a class member get sick and they have worked with him to get him caught up after hours and on weekends. Everyone has treated us just the way we had hoped and better.
I am happy to be here and have put the turmoil of the acquisition behind me as have all of us that I know on this side of the partition. We are ready to do our part to keep this place rocking.
As of 7:37 this evening, there are 94 of us in training. Class 4 starts in the morning but were initiated tonight in traditional SWA fashion.

Glad to hear, you will not find another employer as helpful and caring for you as a human being with all those frailties as SWA is to their employee's.