golfandflows

you’re rattling off quite the “ok boomer” posts as of late

flyguy81

Then feel free to leave. You’re seriously a drama queen. I’ve never had the opinion that every day here is worse than the last.

It’s contract negotiations and people are edgy. Try living on $35k/yr for 7 yrs at a regional because your mgt refuses to negotiate. Try being told by your CEO to rent instead of buy because he keeps closing bases every 6 mos. Try getting food stamps because your wage isn’t enough to feed a family.

This place has issues lately…but it isn’t as awful as you make it out to be. Everyone at every airline has gripes…even the Deltoids with their new contract.

Give it a rest already….or do yourself a favor and bail for the 1st upgrade elsewhere.

Tankerhead

No doubt about it, the training center is nothing but beautiful unicorns farting triple rainbows. It’ll wear off if you’re normal. If it doesn’t wear off, you’re probably an 81’er.

To keep your head from exploding, I will add that 95 percent of our plumbers are great to work with.

Mozam

That has been the line here for 50 years. It was one of GK favorite lines to the captain upgrades. I am pretty sure I will be getting paid 35 percent less than my peers due to you and the 40 percent like you that will vote yes to anything.


How many more days till the stock is in the 20s. They are working hard to ruin this airline .

Champeen07

To answer the OP:

Most everyone here will tell you to go to United. If you wanna make big bucks at SWA, you can but you're gonna have to work harder for it. If I was in your shoes, I'd be in class at United at the end of the month.

Also though, dont make life changing and career decisions based on what someone said on a forum. You really need to reach out to people that work at each place and have a conversation about what their work life is like and how each one would work for you.

Vettekid

Best answer yet.

at6d

Sedona to PHX driving commute isn’t too bad, right at two hours. Not sure how the PHX domicile will be affected by the BNA announcement (for WN at least).

Otterbox

United for Vegas, AA for Phoenix.

flensr

A very real consideration should be how soon do you want to upgrade, and are you willing to commute in order to chop YEARS off your upgrade wait and secure your spot on the list while things are good.

At United, LAX narrowbody CA upgrade is only a year. Anyone willing to commute and living in the West should not disregard that as a real option. Will United's new contract convince enough senior FOs to quit bypassing which will slow upgrades? I dunno. Right NOW however, LAX CA in the A320 and 737 is available immediately off probation. Living in LAS or PHX that could be a big consideration when compared to SWA's 7+ yr upgrade. I can't imagine SWA's upgrades getting much sooner than they are now. As soon as hiring tapers off, our very flat retirement curve and single fleet type will push upgrades right back up to 10 years.

Commuting to reserves sucks no matter what company you work for, so don't use United's high bypass numbers as an excuse to discount it as an option. At SWA, you get to wait 7+ years for the chance to commute to reserves. Why wait unnecessarily?

RJSAviator76

This lame ass excuse is worn out worse than your first VHS porn tape. And no, you won't be paid 35% less than your peers... Seriously, what is it with you drama queens? Do you guys get off on this??