ZapBrannigan

Just wishing everyone good luck and a good visit today!

If you have time, please share what your day is like and any good information/rumors that they provide.


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BlackhawkIP

Some of the highlights I wrote down:

Pilots/Hiring:
Hiring People NOT Robots
1-Flight Experience
2-Education
3-Leadership
784 pilots to be hired in 2017
784 pilots to be hired in 2018
650 pilots hired 2019 forward
8686 pilots currently on property
Expanding to 10,000
3 classes monthly
28 new hires per class
66 days from interview to class start date
Bids are done monthly
New training center being built at a cost of $540mil with 18 new simulators expandable to 26. Currently there are 12 simulators in the current building.
Training from start to finish is 8 weeks. Paired with someone opposite of your strengths. Swap seats playing CPT/FO throughout the training.

Airplanes:
120: 737-800s (99.2% reliability rate)
58: 737-700
85: 737-300 (all Classics to be retired in September; 35 on Labor Day alone)
737-800MAX will be fielded starting in September. 15% more efficient than 700NG
737-700MAX will be debuted at Southwest with it taking on longer international legs (Hawaii). Carries 150 passengers and is a longer plane.

Bases/Destinations/Domiciles:
Expanding to 50+ more destinations
Cayman and CVG opening in the next month
Fort Lauderdale opening 3 international gates to expand Caribbean and S. America routes.
10 current domiciles with one more coming in the next 18 months. Locations that produce 150 flights per day (Mega Station) are being looked at for most probable.

Ohlsan

-I'll add that they are currently looking at applications with availability dates for all of 2017.
- Type not required, and is slowly losing the bonus prefrence it had before.
- yahoo email accounts are not the best for the SWA systems, so you may miss emails from them, and they only communicate through email.
- it was a great day and worth the expense to go.

FlyingAnvil

Thanks for the info ... was unable to attend.

ZapBrannigan

What do you suppose this means? And what should a candidate do if he only has a Yahoo account and that's what he put on his app?


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Bennies

I had a Yahoo e mail and mine came through. That was two years ago though. I always checked my spam folder regularly but mine never went into spam.

Ohlsan

Check your spam on a computer is my best advice, I am going to look into changing my email address, if it's possible, they said they don't know why but some people have no issues and some people do when using yahoo.

GatorHog

For me, at least, the one-on-one was identical to the experience at WAI. For info and rumors Blackhawk and Ohlsan covered just about everything. Overall it was a very, very well-run event. Made me even more excited about SWA.

PulledBreaker

For those that attended today, does your application status now say "Resume Review: In Progress"?

JTwift

Outlook.com had the interview invite go to the spam folder, too, FYI.