Well everyone has a perspective and I respectfully disagree with yours on this matter. The fact that they required it for so many years and still frown on those who don't have it says something for the company. I realize that you are not paying for your training at Southwest but they were the first reputable company to install a hiring process that requires you to have a type rating to get a job. People can say all they want about the low paying regionals but they don't require a pilot to have a type rating in a particular aircraft in order to be considered for a job. Please don't miss understand me, I have respect for all the Southwest guys who have recieved a job without a 737 type rating. As for the guys that had them, well althought they may be good professional pilots I just can't respect the action of paying for a type just to be considered for a job. The "downward spiral" of our industry took a lot of contributing factors this (IMO) was just one of them that got us here. I could keep listing them but I prefer to stay positive and look to a better future.

As for websites like climb to 350 and others like it. They created the online job board, why shouldn't they profit from there work? I certainly wouldn't do it for free and besides a pilot can write off there fees (if they fill out the long form).