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.

Mechanics too
 

It looks like their mechanics just signed an agreement also. Seems like Mr. K. understands the advantages of a happy (satisfied?) workforce?

AMFA Mechanics Ratify Tentative Agreement With Southwest Airlines - Yahoo! Finance

nice post....u r right(for once)......glad they got a contract...i would probably hate that job...multiple legs....short layovers...weak vacation policy...same aircraft 4 life...no internantional.... no retirement....man our job is pretty darn good!

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.....

Posting from your cell phone? Just a guess.

Guys like that are going to pull the handles when they see what's going to happen to "normal" retirement at age 60. Wait for the company's opener next year....

As for me and mine - SWA's retirement is my retirement. Our pension will go the way of everyone else's. The free market is unstoppable over time.

I won't have my 25 years when I turn 60 and I'm out of here then (unless the company makes me a similar offer sooner?).

Huck, agree. Thought it might take a little longer than the next round of negotiations, but if it were me on the company side of the table the first item on the chopping block would be Age 60 Retirement. Ergo, effectively you are forced to work until 65 if you'd like a retirement. As for the results of the Age 65 legislation, this is the worst in my opinion.

I stopped the NC chairman at the last union meeting and advised him that I'm a single issue voter on the next contract. That is if the CBA doesn't say, "Normal retirement age is 60" that I'm voting NO. If it's important to you guys, I encourage you to do the same ...

No way around it. They've got a signed resolution from our unanimous MEC with the number 60 all over it. Can't have your cake and eat it too.