At least you have not doomed yourself to hard landings and max breaking. :-)

 

got mine as well....

 

You got it wrong, big time. You have to kill a young kitten, not tongue-lash an old beaver. Sick...

 

Well the upshot DC8driver is that you'll get on with a carrier that lands at the right airport, doesn't damage their aircraft, run off the runway have a series of maintenance violations... like... what's the name of that airline in Indonesia???? Oh yeah... Lion Air.

Rumors are that SW may be blackballed from Indonesia too

 

SWA, like many airlines before them, are experiencing growing pains for sure. Remember when Delta used to stand for "Don't ever land There again?" Many of you may be too young to remember the many incidences in the late 80s early 90s.

As far as the app flush, they do it so that they get fresh and current apps from a pool of folks that still actually want to work here. If SWA is where you want to be, and for this 11,000 hour plus, all civilian, former 121 guy with a significant hiatus after my airline folded (6 years ago today, btw,) it is the only place I had considered.

So keep applying, keep a good attitude. Definitely keep networking, because when the invite comes, you ARE going to want friends on the inside who will vouch for you.

For what it's worth, I'm sitting in a class right now that is split just about evenly down the middle with half military and half all civilian guys.

Good luck to all those who wish to be here!

 

Any issues with recency then? That's my Achilles's Heel at present.

 

Got my TBNT..Let's see, that's the third airline I've gotten the TBNT for an interview

 

Got a TBNT letter in fall of 2011 after the interview. The worst interview experience imaginable.

They invited me back last October. I declined. They called. I told them why. I didn't use any F bombs.

The ju ju is bad over there.

 

OP: Are you 737 typed? Sorry if you posted it, I didn't see one way or the other.

I'll give you a conditional ha-ha if you've got a type rating. If not, then I'll have to play the Price is Right failure song and say quit whining. I'm from the favored child callsign bearing military pilot fraternity and also got no call... with no type. I've got friends in the same boat with a type, a perfect record, and more internals than you and I combined (which I'm pretty certain doesn't matter until you actually get an interview) who also didn't get called.

 

They're flushing the app pool and starting again. I got the letter, all my crash pad roommates did too. It's a generic form letter. What did you think, by sending that they would change their mind? What you did was erase any chance of ever having a shot there, ever, since they turned around and reopened the window. If you got all butthurt and took the time to draft a response to a form letter, you've got some seriously thin skin, and it comes off as completely pathetic and immature. Right now the HR people are saying "wow, glad we didn't give that guy a shot." Quite possible other HR departments are looking up your listed quals and matching them up to apps in their stacks for a black flag too.