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#31
weekends off? Nope...
Joined APC: Apr 2014
Posts: 1,940
No idea. They'll be built as charter flights and run through the open time system. Only requirements is that the trip starts and finishes in a crew base. In between, depends where the cargo is and where it's going.
#32
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,424
My best guess - it was a decision based on the number of pilots SWA thinks it is going to need x number of years from now. They had some choices. They really didn't want to furlough and so they looked for the least expensive option that would allow them to right size their manning without furlough. They weighed this vs the hard to quantify factor of doing right by its people and how that may pay off later down the road and came up with a number that they were willing to live with.
I am actually impressed and somewhat surprised. They overmanned the airline a couple of years ago on purpose and they are owning the decision in a very smart way. They are trimming the expensive fat off the top and getting flight ops back to being an efficient open market where it tends to thrive. The option to offer voluntary ETO that you can be recalled from is also smart. Now you don't have furloughs poisoning the well when it is time to recall.
It's about down to brass tacks and it looks like SWA is doing right by its people. It's a business decision that will, more than likely, pay dividends once demand returns, and it will.
#33
Line Holder
Joined APC: Feb 2010
Posts: 64
I have always believed there is a monetary value to being the only Major Carrier to not furlough. I think the company realizes this as well.
#34
weekends off? Nope...
Joined APC: Apr 2014
Posts: 1,940
My best guess - it was a decision based on the number of pilots SWA thinks it is going to need x number of years from now. They had some choices. They really didn't want to furlough and so they looked for the least expensive option that would allow them to right size their manning without furlough. They weighed this vs the hard to quantify factor of doing right by its people and how that may pay off later down the road and came up with a number that they were willing to live with.
I am actually impressed and somewhat surprised. They overmanned the airline a couple of years ago on purpose and they are owning the decision in a very smart way. They are trimming the expensive fat off the top and getting flight ops back to being an efficient open market where it tends to thrive. The option to offer voluntary ETO that you can be recalled from is also smart. Now you don't have furloughs poisoning the well when it is time to recall.
It's about down to brass tacks and it looks like SWA is doing right by its people. It's a business decision that will, more than likely, pay dividends once demand returns, and it will.
I am actually impressed and somewhat surprised. They overmanned the airline a couple of years ago on purpose and they are owning the decision in a very smart way. They are trimming the expensive fat off the top and getting flight ops back to being an efficient open market where it tends to thrive. The option to offer voluntary ETO that you can be recalled from is also smart. Now you don't have furloughs poisoning the well when it is time to recall.
It's about down to brass tacks and it looks like SWA is doing right by its people. It's a business decision that will, more than likely, pay dividends once demand returns, and it will.
#35
Gets Weekends Off
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#36
Jump all over it. Definitely not rubber dog crap out of Hong Kong with lite twins having no legs for it anyway, but the no PAX, FA stuff and door open should sell itself. That’s goodness right there.
#37
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2017
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#38
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