The SWAPA Number

Today’s SWAPA number is 50. That’s the amount of SWAPA Number podcasts we’ve produced for our pilots since we started in August of 2019. We’ve gotten a lot of great feedback about them because they l…

Today's SWAPA Number is 68.8. That's the number of ASAP reports filed by Southwest pilots per 10,000 flights in 2019. 

In this episode, we're going to talk with SWAPA Safety chair, Gary Niemann, and v…

Today’s SWAPA number is 2013. That was the last year SWAPA’s Internal Audit Committee made a formal report to our board of directors. As a member-driven organization, SWAPA owes it to our pilots to m…

Today’s SWAPA number is 24 million. That’s the amount of money SWA will contribute to employee PS for Q1. It’s one of the first signs we’re recovering from the worst of the pandemic. With Q1 earnings…

Today’s SWAPA number is 815. That’s the number of hits our current website gets on a daily basis. While that may seem like a lot, in reality that’s far fewer than what we’d like to see. 

In an effort …

Today’s SWAPA number is 112. That’s the number of days our SWAPA President Casey Murray has held office. In that brief period, our Association has had to handle WARN Notices, the pandemic and vaccine…

Today's SWAPA Number Is 71. That's the percentage of traffic to swapa.org that are SRC items. The depth and breadth of articles, blogs, phone calls, and educational pieces that the SRC puts out is ju…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 196. That’s the size of the Southwest’s newest ETOPs bid group in Las Vegas. 

The timing and method of the announcement is causing our pilots to ask a lot of questions, so toda…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 38. That’s the number of surveys and polls SWAPA ran during the SEP process during preparations for Contract 2020 alone. Our Association doesn’t make all of our decisions base…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 40. That’s the number of full-time staff members SWAPA employs to serve our membership. When our Pilots think about SWAPA, they think about reps, execs, and committee Pilots d…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 19%. That’s the percentage of SWAPA pilots that contribute to the SWAPA PAC. Compare that to American Airlines pilots who contribute almost twice as much money per month and y…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 3 billion. That’s Southwest Airlines’ net cash position today. Despite the unprecedented damage the pandemic has done to our economy and industry, our airline still has more c…

Today’s SWAPA number is 4. That is the number of new BOD members elected for 2021. On the show today, we talked to each of them about their background, what drove them to run for office, and what the…

Today’s SWAPA number is 9,144. That’s the number of SWAPA Pilots on the Master Seniority List that new SWAPA president Casey Murray was elected to represent. It’s a difficult job in the best of circu…

Today’s SWAPA number is 10. According to the CDC’s latest guidance, that’s how many days are needed to quarantine after a COVID exposure. Since this new change has some very real effects on our Pilot…

Today on the show we are going to talk to NC Member Jody Reven about what WARN Notices mean to our Pilots and what they can expect from SWAPA in the coming weeks. 

If you have any feedback for us at a…

Today's SWAPA Number is 6,433. That's the number of pilots who subscribed to SWAPA's Line Tuner service. It's just one of the many tools and reports our SRC offers to the membership. 

On today's episo…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 943,971 that’s the increase in passenger counts at TSA checkpoints since the lowest point in April of 2020. While passenger counts are still well below average, it definitely …

The month of November is open enrollment for SWA’s medical benefits and it also happens to be when the window is open for the Non-qualified plans. 

In this episode we spoke with SWAPA’s Benefits Chair…

Today's SWAPA Number is 23. That's the number of days the Company has decided all labor groups have to negotiate a 10% pay concession or face the threat of furloughs. On October 8th, VP of Labor Rela…