mexipilot84

Depending on the situation if you’re commuting to your trip and can’t make it in chances are they’ll buy you a ticket. However if it happens more often than not they will question you about it.

It’ll probably be about 6 months or more for home basing then you don’t have to worry about commuting.

Prettywhacked1

Good Lord....
Why in God’s name would anyone work under these conditions, in this hiring bonanza?
Swift Air must be taking a page from Connie Kalitta and hiring the felony/multiple violation/DUI crowd.
Yeesh.

mexipilot84

You’d be surprised how many of those are at regionals or even the majors for that matter. Most of them screwed up and are trying to surge from it.

As far as making things better hope the new owners invest in the employees. Time will tell as the hiring boom hits here and recruitment becomes increasingly difficult. They will have to change to adapt to the changes in the industry. Change or be left behind.

captjns

There should be a yellow flag for plagiarism

sky jet

Maybe in 1995. Connie now has a line of pilots wanting in and can be pretty selective. You need to update your brain to version 2.1.

Boats and Hos

Can you please stick to Swift information and not Endeavor. You left Swift and took the 10,000$ from EDV and then quit to go back to Swift. Some of us are still at EDV. Yes, it’s a choice. A choice not to go to places like Swift. You keep posting as though you are still at EDV when you are not. Thank you.

Hellafo

There isn't food on any flights except Venezuela flights, and it's because it's catered by Laser or Avior.
The VIP flights you can eat the left overs from the teams, at the end of the day. Do you like feeling like a dog running for scraps? I don't.
ICE has some really long flights that are not catered, absolutely inhumane. I was at a regional for 7 years and let me tell you, QOL took a major hit coming to Swift. Leadership thinks they are competing with regionals, that's laughable. They fly 737s for (+& sake not a 50 seater, and they don't want to pay up.
You'll be sitting RSV at places like ACY with no daily credit towards your MMG. Meaning you will not be able to break guarantee if you are homebased....no minimum day pay, no minimum trip pay.
In MIA you have to call to get released everyday even though you are a line holder.

Did I mention there's no 401k?

randomroute

It appears that Seift may not be the “cup of tea” for some pilots...the same way 121 night cargo or expatriate contract flying might not be the “cup of tea” for other pilots. I’ve noticed through a quick scroll through of this thread-that there are a few names that keep popping up with negativity. Do they work at Swift? Where do they work? Why do they devote so much time to comment on a corporation that isn’t affected by their existence?

Lets be realistic, Swift isn’t a major league operation, so can you reallllly expect major league work rules and pay? It would seem that change can be affected from within, especially in the competitive regional flying market.Time will tell...

I was inspired to post tonight because of a comment about Mexipilot not being at Endeavor anymore...

...lets take a logical trip through a simple reasoning exercise. Endeavor is a top tier regional airline, with leading pay. They have a very selective recruiting team, which leads many to question (on the Endeavor sub-forum/board) ways to be more appealing or even receive notice from the HR department. If Mexipilot did work for Endeavor, and it is known, wouldnt the shady past of Swiftair and his flying ‘past/history’ make him an undesirable candidate for hire? Lets go further, if Mexipilot could make it through 121 AQP training at Endeavor (where he most certainly could be considered for a captain slot (as quite a few Air Wisconsin/Expressjet pilots have) and have an interview at Delta in a matter of months, why would he give those two lucrative prospects up to go back to Swift? Even further, if Swift were such a sweat shop, why would he return instead of going to any other regional airline?

The disconnect seems to be made in perception and personal opinion as opposed to reason. Alot of you ‘sweaty pitted’, ‘baggy shirt wearin’, ‘instagram flexxin’, ‘backpack wieldin’-Ivy League aviation scholars fail to realize in this industry that people can go wherever they want, to fly. As long as there are planes, there will be pilots to fly them. Your threshold for pay and QOL may not be the standard for another. There have been a few Swift pilots that have been hired into legacy airlines-so it cant be the sharthole some would like it to be, or make it appear to be.

TiredSoul

+1
This ^^^
......(filler)

motorclutch

Plus u get to work for David Speaks. Fired for in competence from ABX. A true dumpster fire.