To me, the value of these sorts of threads lies in debunking the idea that it’s “easy” to consistently score the 170 TFP and above monthly trip totals at SWA as a typical line pilot. It seems like a lot of our SWA guys like to casually throw those sorts of “easy” numbers out on threads for whatever reason, but when you get down to the brass tacks of how they actually do it, their story starts to unravel a bit.

To me, that’s important because the implication that we can “easily” out-earn our peers at other airlines also carries with it a sort of insinuation that we don’t really need that much better of a contract because, if you work 18+ days per month and expend much of your off-duty psychic energy orchestrating the pulling off of 170+ TFP month-in and month-out, your W2 can be bigger than a line guy at Delta or FedEx working half as hard as you.