As someone said earlier - there are pilots at every airline who do business with the company outside of their pilot contract. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s called capitalism and being able to market yourself in an otherwise non-merit based career. No matter how good each pilot is at their job, you can’t really “get ahead” in aviation very easily.

Some make software, some work in management, some show up in safety videos, some own flight schools that do contracts with the company, and Swayne just so happens to make videos. Which he’s been doing for 7 years. Unless I’m wrong, I don’t think any of you here spent years building experience working with the FAA and airlines to get approval for cockpit footage and stuff like that.

And for those of you talking about how he posted a video during contract negotiations.. do you not remember what he posted on Instagram the day the company backed out on your agreement? The video was released hours before your union announced what had happened... so how was he supposed to know before any of you? THEN he didn’t post another video publicly until your contract was finally agreed upon.

I don’t know Swayne well. I did however meet him since I went to school at UND. But what I do know is that over 84 pages of comments on nameless forums about him seen wrong. And if you spend time looking at what he’s doing and the timing of his posts, this thread doesn’t seem right.