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The industry's golden child will vary in the course of your career as contract and economic cycles happen. Being happy where you live and the benefits of non-commuting won't.
That's awesome that SWA is building schedules like that. I inferred from friends that the few leg days went senior. Thus not realistic for a new hire. Originally Posted by RckyMtHigh
Don't think this is an accurate statement anymore. I have done many two-leg cross country type days in two years at SWA. I've done all of one five-leg day. With the max coming online, there will be more of the same. Future growth at SWA is longer routes out to Hawaii and to Central/South America. I would expect SWA to look and feel a lot like the legacy carriers by 2020, minus the Europe and Pacific long haul stuff. Wouldn't count out another type aircraft either in my 20 year career. Not that any of that really matters because, like everyone else has said, your number one factor in choosing between the big 4 should be commuting vs non-commuting. You can't compare scheduling flexibility or pay without factoring that in. Your opportunities to take advantage of scheduling rules and make the most of the respective pay scales jump up dramatically when you live in base.The industry's golden child will vary in the course of your career as contract and economic cycles happen. Being happy where you live and the benefits of non-commuting won't.
While looking at bid packages at DAL I know that the multiple short leg quick turns don't really exist on the 737. Red eye transcon would be realistic for a new 737 FO though.