Originally Posted by
Roper92
That gives regional pilots tremendous leverage. It gives corporate/charter pilots great leverage. It gives ULCC pilots a lot of leverage. It even gives sw leverage. But how does that give an airline, that just hired and trained over 3,000 pilots post-Covid with no issues, leverage? Honest question. I don’t think very many, if any, voted yes out of fear from the mediator.
Looking at your attrition, it doesn’t sound like you have as much leverage as you think you do. Best of luck. I hope you guys knock it out of the park, but then again a lot of posters make it sound like they already are with all the OT they fly.
I agree that, right now, we don't have as much leverage as most SWA pilots think we do via a possible pilot shortage.
We do have far more potential leverage available to us in the form of posing the credible threat of a legal strike than most pilots at SWA or at SWAPA seem to be able to get their heads wrapped around. It is far more powerful leverage than whatever pilot shortage might exist at the moment. And even if a true pilot shortage does develop at SWA, the credible threat of a legal strike does not, at all, diminish the leverage that a pilot shortage might provide us. It not an either, or thing. It's a both, and thing.