Originally Posted by
rickair7777
This one is a grey area...many flight schools charge new instructors for airplane checkouts, and SWA requires you to buy a 737 type before you start work.
There is no gray about it: SWA is Pay For Training. SWA pilots have helped lower the bar for everyone else in the industry, and that's how I and many others will always see them. Just because it's a major airline, and people are "happy" to work there, doesn't make their PFT right. It is wrong, and always will be.