Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
SWA was a bottom feeder pay-wise for so long. In fact I'd even argue their business model/hideous 10 year contract had a lot to do with the bringing down of the last generation's airline pilot lifestyle to what we have today. It's only after the dust settled that they looked around and discovered they were making more than the majors that were brought down. It certainly wasn't anything they negotiated at the time. We want to be more like them why?
Delta Express, the Sunshine Operation, was modeled (largely) after SWA. That was a bottom feeder paywise. Ask TSquare about how much pilots were making during the GSWC campaign. Welcome to the bottom feeder SWA (err I mean Delta).
I'll make it simple. There were many, many guys exceeding $30K/month