No, there is not. But it’s easier for them to do management type jobs when they live in base, which most corporate/mil folks do.

SWA (IMO) does not care what your experience is, if you meet the mins (their secret computer mins that is) you get triggered for an interview. I honestly believe the job is yours to loose once you interview.

SWA want to hire a certain type of person, and we can only speculate what that secret sauce is, but from my experience it’s people with something or things on their resume’ that stand out. Check airman, chief pilot, safety officer, maintenance duties, whatever.

My interview had 2 “tell me about a time” questions. The rest was “what was your hardest challenge as a safety officer”. “Ever fail someone giving a check ride”? What was the mission your company did? How did you build team enthusiasm?

SWA has a brief period to decide if you are what they want as a PERSON, not as a pilot. It’s your job to convey to them who and what you are.

I had zero airline, zero jet time when I was hired. My honest opinion is SWA want a person who will promote their culture and business model, they will teach you how to fly if need be.

“Pilots are a dime a dozen, a good employee is damn near impossible to find, but we found 24 of them”, was an intro by someone during training.

 

Yep. It may not be quite the same airline as described in the book “NUTS”, but I’m convinced the “hire for attitude, train for skill” philosophy is in place.

 

Yup, cool guy with story that doesn't have a panic attack = hired. MIL,CIV,CORP guy that freaks is done and done. More MIL dude spaz out than CIV btw.

 

corp/mil/civ all the same too me. some are as3holes some are not, more as3holes and horrible pilots from the air force academy. that is just life though. AFA "I flew tankers/fake fighters" like my buzzz cut? oh jesus, flunky here we go.

 

What are fake fighters? I’m just looking to get educated as you seem like an intelligent thinker.