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

[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

 

[K-Mart]

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

That's it! And if your a capt on the AirTran side you get to stay so maybe there will be a bit of silver lining for a few.

 

[maxblast72]

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

My guess is SWA transitions 72 pilots per month from Jan 2014 through April 2015 so that we will all be flying orange and blue for the busy summer season of 2015. A few Trannies might get a 2-3 month paid vacation waiting for a transition class. I hope I am one of them

 

[vixin]

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 nice spinners on the McD vans we bought. Maybe an extra GDO if we are lucky.

 

[Kharma Police]

That's it! And if your a capt on the AirTran side you get to stay so maybe there will be a bit of silver lining for a few.

No, I think if SWAPA and GK can find a way to throw us under the bus then they will. My guess is that Randy Babbitt will dangle a "pay cut or else" offer to relax the deadline. Why SWAPA happily invited a B-Scale on their property still baffles me....

 

[scoreboardII]

We didn't, you did by rejecting the first offer. We had no say in what you're getting paid. Who's at fault? Look in the mirror.