Smooth at FL450

It never was mandatory, and I don't even think they are requiring that you request an exemption anymore.

flensr

Absolutely. Flipping burgers until United and Delta started hiring would have been better than sticking with SWA. I'd have doubled my career income ditching my 3-4 yr SWA seniority and going to skywest for a couple of years while waiting for United to open up hiring.

WHACKMASTER

Is this sarcasm? Can’t tell.

flensr

I know, right? It should be clearly one or the other, but it isn't.

marcfyve1911

Got an interview invite but currently deployed and won’t be back stateside during available time slots. I’ve tried emailing the admin email address and the pilot hiring email address to address this matter but no joy

anyone have any other contacts?

Smooth at FL450

more dates will become available. Just keep checking.

marcfyve1911

sounds good, thanks for the reply!

poopooplatter

Posted from other thread as it is germane to the discussion and may be helpful:



Hiring number howgozit:

Planned hiring for January: 212

Howgozit: 131

Unless they have a class of 81 waiting in the wings for the 31st of January, we are going to miss by a country mile, and that appears to even be a with a self-stated desire to overbook due to attrition. SWAPA has stated we have lost 10% of new hires in 2022. That does does not account for those who were called with the offer and declined…that’s a number we will never know, but it only compounds the truth of the matter. Extrapolated over 2023, this has us missing our numbers by a large margin that will not be able to be swept under the rug. I believe we will see a face saving maneuver of “recalibrating” those numbers very soon. Not because we cannot meet those numbers, you see, but because of reasons and stuff.

To potential new hires, understand: Any perceived benefit of SWA (and there certainly are some, I’m not scorched-earth on SWA) DEMANDS growth. Our very business model is built around needing to grow. If we cannot do that, the reasons to come dwindle. We have very very few retirements relative to others. If your career is to prosper, we MUST grow. At this point, we are not hitting our numbers, but wait for Jan 31st for the official howgozit postmortem.

Poopoo out.

ZapBrannigan

Might be some good info on the 26th during the 4th qtr earrings call. I don't expect Wall Street or the av-journalists to go easy on them. They're going to want answers for what happened and how they're going to prevent it from happening again.

I intend to listen to that call with popcorn.

Mozam

I think you are misinformed, the meltdown was due to weather in DEN. ( To be exact, terminal C at Denver airport had all the bad WX).