162 episodes

In each podcast we explore a number that will help us explain an issue that matters to our Pilots. This might be a scheduling metric, a Company financial number that impacts us, or anything else that has significance to us as SWAPA Pilots.

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In each podcast we explore a number that will help us explain an issue that matters to our Pilots. This might be a scheduling metric, a Company financial number that impacts us, or anything else that has significance to us as SWAPA Pilots.

    The SWAPA Ride Report: Scheduling Handbook Highlights and Pro Tips for Open Time Priority and Vacation Overlap

    The SWAPA Ride Report: Scheduling Handbook Highlights and Pro Tips for Open Time Priority and Vacation Overlap

    This week, host Captain Matt McCants gives us the high points of the newly released Scheduling Handbook – a must have in a Pilot’s tool box to resume own navigation through the new CBA. He also covers how much error pay and fixed audit pay have been recovered by SWAPA since date of ratification. 
    The Q&A this week has topics ranging from online legality changes to some great techniques to maximize your opportunities in Open Time Priority and Vacation Overlap. How can you boost your TFP? Take a listen and find out.
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    • 8 min
    231 Million (EFA, Greg Auld, Erich Schnitzler)

    231 Million (EFA, Greg Auld, Erich Schnitzler)

    Today's SWAPA Number is 231 million. That's the net loss for Southwest Airlines in the first quarter of 2024. Today, we're sitting down with Eric Schnitzler and Greg Auld of the Economic and Financial Analysis Committee to shed some light on the industry as a whole, as well as the financial outlook of Southwest Airlines, given some recent events.
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    • 31 min
    The SWAPA Ride Report: TTGA / ELITT Expansion and Overrides Q&A

    The SWAPA Ride Report: TTGA / ELITT Expansion and Overrides Q&A

    This week, guest host and Communications Director Amy Robinson walks us through the newest expansion of Trip Trade Giveaway and ELITT. If you’ve ever wanted to pick up or trade with the company over a non-fly or vacation event, you’ll want to listen in and understand how that works. 
     
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    If you have any feedback for us at all, please drop us a line at comm@swapa.org
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    • 6 min
    4,452 (Summer Schedule and Implementation, Meagan Nelan, Dan O'Connor, Scott Plyler)

    4,452 (Summer Schedule and Implementation, Meagan Nelan, Dan O'Connor, Scott Plyler)

    Today's SWAPA Number is 4,452. That's the peak number of flights per day in the revised June schedule. That's just over 6% more than last year. So today we're going to speak with SRC supervisor, Meagan Nealon, SRC committee member, Dan O'Connor and SRC Chair, Scott Plyler about where the network schedule stands for the summer season, as well as discuss what's upcoming as far as implementation.
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    • 25 min
    The SWAPA Ride Report: Membership Polling, Crew Meals, and new Annotated CBA

    The SWAPA Ride Report: Membership Polling, Crew Meals, and new Annotated CBA

    This week, host First Officer Tony Mulhare from SWAPA Communications discusses a potential shift in position by the Company regarding early morning crew meals. This week's Contract Admin Q&A covers several topics, including bereavement leave and why overfly credit can sometimes be absorbed by daily rigs.
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    • 4 min
    The SWAPA Ride Report: Polling/Implementation, a Grievance, and Reroute Q&A

    The SWAPA Ride Report: Polling/Implementation, a Grievance, and Reroute Q&A

    This week, host Captain Matt McCants from SWAPA Communications outlines the next high points in April’s implementation schedule. He also plugs the upcoming SWAPA polling event, and gives the membership a look into active debates, including a grievance between SWAPA and the Company.
    If you have been part of an online reroute, you’ll want to listen in to this week’s Q&A, which covers a number of common and some not-so-common reroute scenarios, as well as how overrides come into play with the Junior Assigned (JA) process. These questions and answers should let you know what to expect the next time you have a change on your board.
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    • 10 min

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