Bryris,

Let me ask you this. When you began your journey into aviation did visions of a quick transition to SWA dance in your head? If you had known that financially this venture would most likely result in a net loss would you still have jumped in?

Starting an aviation career is a huge decision. The cost of flight training and investment in personal sacrifices are huge. Few enter without an expectation of significant financial gain and a better future.

To come to the realization now that you are but one of many many tens of thousands of pilots who are ardently competing over less than 2000 new hire spots per year at one of the better airlines should be disheartening.

How is it that you could consider my views as negative?

Skyhigh

I am still waiting to find out how many applications UPS has on file. If SWA has 40,000 imagine what UPS has. I bet the paper alone consumed a forest the size of Manhattan.