Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
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.
The Nuts days are long gone for better or worse. We are a giant corporation with fiefdoms and tribes all pulling the boat in different directions.
Agree about new hire training circa 2014. It was terrible. I have heard it has changed a lot.
Also agree about pilot disability. How has that and ancillary items gone unaddressed for so long? Sad.