Originally Posted by
jwr407
Question for the current Southwest pilots. I’m sure like the rest of us pilots you all did tons of research and asked many questions about Southwest before you jumped on board. So for someone on the outside looking in can you guys relay maybe one or two items(either positive or negative) that you learned about Southwest after you were hired. Thanks!
I came to SWA with high expectations. I really believed that it would be like the place described in the book “Nuts!” There are good things about SWA, but I really can’t think of any way ways in which I was positively surprised. A couple of negative surprises were:
1) The training was the worst training program I’d ever participated in (between many military programs and another airline). This was a while back so maybe it has changed.
2) The disability insurance and the way we take care of our pilots who get sick is lacking, to say the least.
I could go on but don’t want to be too much of an Eeyore.