I have yet to meet an airline pilot that loves their schedule. There are AA CA's working 5 days straight on a regular basis. Sure they may be one leg to an overnight but still, they are gone four nights. I haven't been here long and I have all 3 day trips next months with like 17 days off. Sure I will work a lot during those 3 days, but I would rather do that then add 2 more nights to my flying. I did enough of that crap at my regional and other ULCC. In addition, I dont currently find the 737 that bad, not nearly as bad as some would make it out to be. Granted, again I am new so that may change but honestly, I think they all are uncomfortable after a full day in them.

Are we really the worst airline? No. I agree the company is dated. It can and should be fixed. We all want it to be better, and not to be a d&ck but I should remind you to be careful what you wish for.

You know what happened to airtran right? It took over Southwest and this is what we got.

Well some people can’t be happy anywhere

no kidding. Might be time for Capt Jeff to smoke a little bud.

Working a certain length of time or number of legs is still a personal decision unless outside forces intervene. You are done when you say so. Your number of days a month are totally up to the individual. Lots of people have made poor decisions and find themselves paying for it literally. If you choose to "help" you are only hurting yourself. The guys who paid for training will have a different mindset about things. I was acquired, so anything other than coming to work and maximizing what I want was never in the picture. Everyone has their own beat.

I think Frontier and American are worse. Everywhere else seems to be better, including Spirit. So much wrong with SWA right now and not only are they perfectly happy with how things are, they're intentionally stiff-arming any external input because "we have the same data you do" (direct quote from leadership during recurrent training on 3 Jan 2021).

Anywhere but Frontier and American are better than this. 1 yr upgrades at both Delta and United, 7-figure career earnings deficit even for SWA FOs with 6-7 years on the list. And the company keeps doubling down on the stupidity, highlighted by the fact that Carl K is still heading SWA's negotiation team. How much more evidence does anyone need to see how bad of a choice this place is?

Allegiant...

Yup, as always around here, I am not sure many of these folks even work for the same company.

I've been on vacay since mid Nov. and don't go back officially til late Feb. I picked up a 2 day with a 19 hour layover later in the month so as to not de-qualify.

Based on my experience during the dumpster fire that this job was/is the last 2+ years, I am guessing it'll be rerouted into a "10" hour layover with lots more duty but very little increase in pay, probably before I leave the house. Maybe even another unscheduled overnight that pays 6.5 at "double" time.

Maybe I'll get lucky, and they'll leave it alone, since it's a straight pay trip. I am not gonna hold my breath though.