Originally Posted by
R1200RT
Yea Herb is keeping everyone happy with cash. Ask them about their retirement. Fly your ass off and make a good living until you retire then nothing. Hope they are saving a lot of it.
Glad I am where I am and the best thing is they love it at SWA. 737 til you die. I'd be miserable there, and they'd be miserable here flying big plans around the world and having a good retirement.
Grass always seems greener.
Key word - SEEMS - greener.....
SWA has stopped new hire classes. They just had a displacement bid. Their "VLT/DRF" (or whatever they call it) flying has all but dried up too.
So, the new TA "pay raise" is MORE than offset by the flying hours reduction they are seeing similar to ours.
The grass isn't greener at SWA or here - they both look like my yard right now - mostly brown. The only green is some green weeds popping up here and there (also a few green blades of new grass trying to poke through too)
Of course, that's just my outsider opinion. Ask most SWA koolaid drinking pilots and they'll tell you they just LUV everything about it over there - and they have the best deal in the industry.
It's all relative.....