Originally Posted by
letsfly
1. Southwest seems like such a great place to go (assuming they are hiring) but all my friends at other airlines say that the up and down sorties and quantity of sorties will kill me. Any Southwest guys have anything to say about that?
Well, I separated from AD flying C17s and have been with SWA for almost a year now. I thought the frequent up and downs were gonna kill me, but in actuality, SWA has a variety of trips. Some have many short legs, others have a couple of medium to long legs. If you don't want to fly those 6 leg days, you really don't have to. There's more than enough people willing to fly those. I average about 2-4 legs a day.
Sometimes, having frequent legs actually makes the day go by faster. You're always busy and your mind's active and it really isn't that bad at all. The best part is, there is no redeeye flying, besides the charter. It's either AMs or PMs. I would rather fly 6-7 legs during the day than 1 super long red eye.
We do work hard here, but that also means we get alot of time off.