SWA to speed up Airtran integration.....article

[canyonblue]

I know some would go in a heartbeat...PCL comes to mind.

Phred

Delta requires a college degree, so unless he can get the Wizard of Oz to conjure one up, he ain't going.

 

[jonjuan]

I think he meant "interview" as opposed to coming WITH the 717s in a pkg deal since that is a provision in our ALPA contract (IIRC, maintaining seats and longevity). It is a part that all parties are ignoring for some reason. I know some would go in a heartbeat...PCL comes to mind.

Phred

Really?

Thanks. I am 100% certain not all of the AT guys would have known that.

Well, some of them did pay for training and only have GEDs, so.........

 

[maxblast72]

Delta requires a college degree, so unless he can get the Wizard of Oz to conjure one up, he ain't going.

Maybe Kelly can ask Anderson if he will make an exception for PCL. Sounds like a win-win for both airlines.

 

[Phlintstone]

Delta requires a college degree, so unless he can get the Wizard of Oz to conjure one up, he ain't going.

Now that's funny. He looks like the Wizard!

Phred

 

[Luv2BFlyin]

Delta requires a college degree, so unless he can get the Wizard of Oz to conjure one up, he ain't going.

Southwest requires a type rating so some wizard must have conjured up 73 types for all of us 71 guys.

 

[canyonblue]

Southwest requires a type rating so some wizard must have conjured up 73 types for all of us 71 guys.

Yeah, that Wizard would be Gary Kelly, who put in place your ability to become a Southwest Pilot without a 737 Type Rating. Also you didn't need the 1000 hours of Turbine PIC, so thank him at the breakfast.

 

[Kharma Police]

Yeah, that Wizard would be Gary Kelly, who put in place your ability to become a Southwest Pilot without a 737 Type Rating. Also you didn't need the 1000 hours of Turbine PIC, so thank him at the breakfast.

If only they would throw in the leather jacket for free too.....

 

[tankerhead]

Yeah, that Wizard would be Gary Kelly, who put in place your ability to become a Southwest Pilot without a 737 Type Rating. Also you didn't need the 1000 hours of Turbine PIC, so thank him at the breakfast.

And plenty of us bring both the type AND 1000 TPIC mins many times over. You're just trying to use one paintbrush for us all. Open your eyes man. I've flown with Tranny captains that dropped bombs in Libya in the eighties, flew the Prez all over the world in the nineties, and heroically recovered burning DC9's when lesser pilots might've augered in. We also have some scabs and serious dooshbags, but you guys do too.

 

[canyonblue]

And plenty of us bring both the type AND 1000 TPIC mins many times over. You're just trying to use one paintbrush for us all.

Not using one paintbrush at all, I know quite a few AirTran pilots that are more than qualified. I was just responding to the smartazz comment about not needing a 737 Type. Of course there is a difference in qualifications with an acquisition opposed to a New Hire, that's all I was pointing out. And Delta still requires a College Degree for a New Hire. I would suppose that doesn't apply to the flow through pilots, hence the different way to get in the door.

 

[canyonblue]

If only they would throw in the leather jacket for free too.....

Please buy the leather jacket, too many guys getting the "look" wearing the Stu Nahan jacket.

 

[Luv2BFlyin]

Yeah, that Wizard would be Gary Kelly, who put in place your ability to become a Southwest Pilot without a 737 Type Rating. Also you didn't need the 1000 hours of Turbine PIC, so thank him at the breakfast.

WOW, "the ability to become a Southwest pilot" given to me by GK, really, you've got to be kidding me, I'll be forever greatful. So far, I have no great urge to thank anyone for this knighthood that is being bestowed upon us ;(.

BTW, like the majority of our captains, over 7000TPIC, and no type due to not being on the 73, not having gotten one in the military, or not having any urge to go buy one to work for WN.

 

[madjack]

Wow you should have got DOH!

 

[Luv2BFlyin]

Wow you should have got DOH!

The list is done. We're living with it. The woulda, coulda, shoulda is over unless someone brings it up.

To think though that we have the ability to become Southwest pilots through the benevolence of GK or Southwest in general is asinine. It's law and contractual. If Southwest could have purchased all our assets and hired off the street, they would have done it in a minute and you all would have been much happier.

 

[Skybus]

Damn can someone please shoot this thread and put it out of its misery. Worse than a bunch of high school girls.

 

[canyonblue]

WOW, "the ability to become a Southwest pilot" given to me by GK, really, you've got to be kidding me, I'll be forever greatful. .

No you won't, 99% of us are though. You'll just be bitter your whole career if you chose to, you won't be missed on the overnights.

 

[canyonblue]

Wow you should have got DOH!

Never ever in a million years would have happened.

 

[Britpilot]

Don't see how they can train all these pilots in 2014:


February 1, 2013

Fellow Pilots,

There was a discrepancy with the numbers printed at the beginning of the “Chairman’s Message” in the eWeekly. Approximately 1165 pilots will remain on the AirTran side of Southwest’s partition by January 1, 2014.



Regards,



Capt. Jim Morris, Chairman

 

[FlyinGuy]

Brit, you are correct. This is not going to happen per the timeline. SWA will have to come to SWAPA and ask for contractual relief. What does that mean? Who knows.

 

[Kharma Police]

Brit, you are correct. This is not going to happen per the timeline. SWA will have to come to SWAPA and ask for contractual relief. What does that mean? Who knows.

It means, Gary Kelly will ask for more time and SWAPA will give it to him.

 

[SWA717]

Damn can someone please shoot this thread and put it out of its misery. Worse than a bunch of high school girls.

+1. It's called got to have the last word syndrome