Share your typical SWA Schedule
07-10-2023, 03:04 PM
#91
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
PIT - USAir
RDU and BNA - AA
STL - TWA/AA
CMH - America West
DAY and SYR - Piedmont (mainline, not the regional)
Arguably ATL - AirTran (the SWA base is a shadow of what AirTran once had)
Sure, some of the airlines are no more but those cities poured money into facilities to build a viable hub and were left with a ghost town.
07-10-2023, 08:46 PM
#92
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,920
That place was a zoo back in the mid-2000’s!
07-10-2023, 08:48 PM
#93
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,920
Cant forget...
PIT - USAir
RDU and BNA - AA
STL - TWA/AA
CMH - America West
DAY and SYR - Piedmont (mainline, not the regional)
Arguably ATL - AirTran (the SWA base is a shadow of what AirTran once had)
Sure, some of the airlines are no more but those cities poured money into facilities to build a viable hub and were left with a ghost town.
PIT - USAir
RDU and BNA - AA
STL - TWA/AA
CMH - America West
DAY and SYR - Piedmont (mainline, not the regional)
Arguably ATL - AirTran (the SWA base is a shadow of what AirTran once had)
Sure, some of the airlines are no more but those cities poured money into facilities to build a viable hub and were left with a ghost town.
07-11-2023, 01:20 AM
#94
Logbook...
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Posts: 416
Cant forget...
PIT - USAir
RDU and BNA - AA
STL - TWA/AA
CMH - America West
DAY and SYR - Piedmont (mainline, not the regional)
Arguably ATL - AirTran (the SWA base is a shadow of what AirTran once had)
Sure, some of the airlines are no more but those cities poured money into facilities to build a viable hub and were left with a ghost town.
PIT - USAir
RDU and BNA - AA
STL - TWA/AA
CMH - America West
DAY and SYR - Piedmont (mainline, not the regional)
Arguably ATL - AirTran (the SWA base is a shadow of what AirTran once had)
Sure, some of the airlines are no more but those cities poured money into facilities to build a viable hub and were left with a ghost town.
07-12-2023, 03:47 PM
#96
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,906
When were those bases closed? How long had they been open? Were they closed “at the drop of a hat?” I’m most interested in Delta, United, American, and Southwest, the four pax airlines generally considered to be part of the “Big 6” (not to take anything away from AK, F9, B6, NK pilots, as those are very much excellent places to work).
The bigger takeaway is that while MEM was a relatively small base, even for NWA, both DFW and CVG were big, big deals for DAL, well over 1,000 pilots each at one point.
Once they started winding down DFW, it happened fairly rapidly. CVG suffered a long road of stagnation, but it was after the merger that it attrited down to 160 pilots total.
07-12-2023, 06:40 PM
#97
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Joined APC: Nov 2020
Posts: 1,898
At DAL, DFW closed in the naughts, MEM closed a couple years after the merger in 2008, CVG closed during COVID.
The bigger takeaway is that while MEM was a relatively small base, even for NWA, both DFW and CVG were big, big deals for DAL, well over 1,000 pilots each at one point.
Once they started winding down DFW, it happened fairly rapidly. CVG suffered a long road of stagnation, but it was after the merger that it attrited down to 160 pilots total.
The bigger takeaway is that while MEM was a relatively small base, even for NWA, both DFW and CVG were big, big deals for DAL, well over 1,000 pilots each at one point.
Once they started winding down DFW, it happened fairly rapidly. CVG suffered a long road of stagnation, but it was after the merger that it attrited down to 160 pilots total.
07-13-2023, 11:11 AM
#98
Enjoying every day!
Joined APC: Dec 2021
Position: Left seat airplane, right seat rotor
Posts: 20
What is the Date of Information that this occurred?Thanks
07-13-2023, 11:53 AM
#99
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Center seat, doing loops to music
Posts: 843
Even reading y'all's anecdotes gives me fatigue, and I've done transpacific unaugmented flying on medication and sleep debt so chronic it's illegal in the civ side. Sure, that was being young and not having career choices, but in my 50s? Nope. Just trying to understand how if things are that bad but the fatigue policy is so good, how this would still be an issue. Sincerely asking.
07-13-2023, 12:50 PM
#100
Spikes the Koolaid
Joined APC: Jul 2015
Position: 737
Posts: 403
for those of us not in the know, what makes it so in your opinion vis a vis other airlines? Because nothing about habitual 3am aircraft beddowns/airport show times inspires anything but copious use of fatigue/sick calls in my mind.
Even reading y'all's anecdotes gives me fatigue, and I've done transpacific unaugmented flying on medication and sleep debt so chronic it's illegal in the civ side. Sure, that was being young and not having career choices, but in my 50s? Nope. Just trying to understand how if things are that bad but the fatigue policy is so good, how this would still be an issue. Sincerely asking.
Even reading y'all's anecdotes gives me fatigue, and I've done transpacific unaugmented flying on medication and sleep debt so chronic it's illegal in the civ side. Sure, that was being young and not having career choices, but in my 50s? Nope. Just trying to understand how if things are that bad but the fatigue policy is so good, how this would still be an issue. Sincerely asking.
Only problems with it are that you lose the premium portion of your pay if you're on a premium trip and you don't get premium pay for any recovery, just straight time on the whole thing.
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