Originally Posted by
Glenntilton
1997. Not rejected by UAL nor furloughed. One would have me way senior than I am now (2300 numbers). The other, a military retirement. My buddy got hired at SWA in 1998, has been a Captain for well over a decade.
I’m just glad I didn’t make any snarky comments about a 737 only career to SWA guys like that back in the late 90s. That would have given me an entire lost decade to look really stupid. In many ways, nothing has changed. SWA is still the best place to ride out the industry storms.