Originally Posted by 01110011

How many other majors can roll you into your day off an unlimited amount of times?

how many other majors only give you only 6 hard days off on reserve?

How many other majors can arbitrarily increase the number of reserves and required reserves, taking away lines and making it impossible to drop a single trip?

Hotel language is good. Soft pay is pretty good. Crew meals/ground transportation/hotel walk ability is good.

Days off/day off protection is abysmal and frankly no amount of add pay makes up for having plans on my day off robbed for company convenience. We have a ton of awesome little things for events that either rarely happen (hotel walks) or aren’t really worth a ton of money (dry cleaning), but we have very poor protections for our schedule and for our home lives.

I told a friend at delta about global reserve and they looked at me like I was insane. Then I told them about how you can get reassigned until 11:59 on a day off even if the company can get you back to base and I thought their head was going to explode. There is no reason getting an EDCT on your last day, misconnecting for your final turn, should allow the company to pull you off your last turn and assign you an overnight.

I shouldn’t have to bid for an extra day off before my plans just in case the company decides that their inability to staff is my problem and they decide to rob my day off so I can cover an inefficient PIT overnight for an extra 5 hours of pay.

Originally Posted by GPullR

Worst work rules?? You are clueless.

Originally Posted by Shimmyshimmy03

If you look at my original post, I’m reaching out to people to see if they left SWA for UA, and what the reasons were. If you can provide insight into that, that would be helpful.

Originally Posted by FriendlyPilot

“Riskier career?”

Also this is the strongest management team we have had in the last 30 years. Whatever happened in the past is the past. Any pilot hired today will likely have 8,000 pilots junior to them by 2028.

Originally Posted by serce

Exactly! Don't forget field standby... I am actually surprised just how many United pilots are not aware how bad some of the bits of the contract are, even compared to the regionals.
Over half of United pilots have less than 14 days off. That's not an industry standard...

Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER

Do not underestimate what being stuck in the Guppy for decades (the MAXes are new and will have a 20-25 year lifespan at SWA) and flying on average three legs a day will do to your enjoyment of the job.

Let me be frank, after 16.5 years on the damn thing, I’m thoroughly over it and especially thoroughly over the SWA flying.

I can’t believe this is even a question in people’s minds. 🤦‍♂️

Originally Posted by Margaritaville

That's what my United friends were told in 2000 before their first furlough, and in 2007 before their second furlough. Lol.

Remind me, how many months passed between the time they stopped hiring and started furloughing both times? 2? 3?

Originally Posted by FriendlyPilot

THis is not 2000 or 2007. We didn’t have unfilled Captain bids back then. We also didn’t have new hires getting WB FO. Delta, United and American all had furloughs in the last 20 years. I guess nobody should go there because there is a chance they might furlough in the future?

People can go where they want. Bottom line is that if someone has any doubt that United is a great airline to work for as a pilot, they shouldn’t even apply to interview.

Originally Posted by serce

The reason why United has unfilled Captain vacancies is because reserve here is a special form of torture. I am willing to bet that Southwest doesn't have Captains that are in bottom 10 percent.