Originally Posted by Lewbronski

As of yesterday, 100 pilots have left SWA since Dec 2021.

If that was 100 pilots since Dec 2022, then maybe, you might have a point.

But, we’ve only lost 100 pilots in 14+ months. That’s 1%. That’s hardly a mass exodus. That’s hardly evidence to the company that new hires are being driven away by the pay or quality of life at SWA.

The fact is very few younger guys (or any guys) are voting with their feet at the moment. I wish they were because then that could be leverage for us. But they aren’t. If they leave, as you say, after the contract is ratified because it didn’t exceed their expectations, that’s too late to be used as leverage for this contract.

Right now, the evidence shows that pilots, for the most part, are stayIng. New hire classes are, at least for now, being filled.

The leverage of posing the credible threat of a legal strike is orders of magnitude more powerful leverage than whatever leverage is created by the trickle of attrition or new hire class-shuffling occurring right now.

Getting this pilot group focused on walking the path toward creating the real possibility of a legal strike at SWA is the most effective way to achieve industry leading everything.