Originally Posted by
scambo1
SWA guys have posted their w-2 earnings here before. You are just trying to discredit Carl. IIRC, it was fairly easy for a SWA mid seniority FO to break 200K and a mid seniority Capt to break 300K. I have no idea if this has dried up with the absorbtion of AirTran.
Its a fairly small minority of DAL FOs that break $200K and many Capts don't either.
I don't think that SWAPA guys alone swing this discussion either way, since there isn't a strong correlation between being independent and having greater success. I do have a SWA friend who is thinking right now about coming back from furlough, and he's sweating the possibility of getting the 717, as he has calculated it would yield 25K/yr less. If I go to the 717, I would probably make 25K less. After talking to him, it sounds like we're sort of in the ballpark. He made more last year, but worked more, and I leave a lot on the table every year, for a higher QOL.
Not really a scientific method, and I'm happy to stipulate that SWAPA, the in-house union to a company that founded it's business on "falling in love with employees and taking customers along for the ride", does well.
Can't we get some consensus around here on the basics? SWA does well. They have great Scope, which hasn't been tested all that much.