The SWAPA Number

Today’s SWAPA Number is 15. As in 15D: The section of our CBA that deals with investigations and discipline. Unfortunately, there has been a noticeable uptick in the number of 15D meetings over the l…

Today’s SWAPA Number is $22.93million. That’s the total of the 2021 budget which will be voted on by the membership in October’s Fall General Election. Today we’re going to talk to SWAPA 2nd Vice Pre…

Today’s SWAPA number is 31.2. That’s the number of months of the average long term disability absence lasts according to the Council for Disability Awareness, a non-profit organization dedicated to e…

Today’s SWAPA number is 13. That’s the total number of positions that will be open on the SWAPA BOD in the fall election. Back in the beginning of 2020, we sat down with each of our new board members…

Today’s SWAPA number is $268,668. That’s the current balance of the Pilot Relief Fund. On the show today, we’re going to talk to Outreach Chair, Jean Peck, who will tell us more about the Pilot Relie…

Today's SWAPA Number is 2,211 That's the number of Pilots who participated in one of the Company's much-needed cost savings initiatives last month. That includes 1,581 Pilots who took a temporary lea…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 3,284. That’s the number of listens to the Covid-19 podcast we did with SWAPA Vice President Mike Santoro on April 4. It was a popular episode that our Pilots found very helpf…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 25. The 1994 CBA had 25 side letters over the length of its duration. The 2006 CBA had 17. Our contract today has 2. What’s changed? Today on the show we’re going to talk to C…

Today’s SWAPA number is $191,745. That’s the annual amount Southwest Airlines will pay to a 12-year Captain for up to 5 years who takes VSP. It’s a substantial amount of money, but it requires walkin…

Today's SWAPA Number is 300%. That's the increase in calls Project Lift to seen since the start of the recent pandemic. We all know that everyone's under enormous amount of stress these days, so it's…

Today’s SWAPA number is 4346. That’s the number of fatigue calls that have been made since Southwest started keeping track in 2011. If your run the math, more than 1 in 3 of all SWA pilots have perso…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 3. That’s the number of candidates we have running in the SWAPA 2nd VP Special Election. The candidate elected for this position will serve for the remainder of the 2020 term …

Today’s SWAPA Number is 98,000. That’s the number of total passengers that flew in the U.S. on April 22. And for comparison, Southwest has about 62,000 employees. Today on the show, we’re going to ta…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 35%. That’s the current amount of flying in the May schedule compared to what was originally planned. We don’t need to belabor the point of what’s happening to our industry an…

Today’s SWAPA Number is 19. Today on the show, we’re going to talk to SWAPA VP Michael Santoro about the impact COVID-19 is having on our Pilots and our Company.

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Today’s SWAPA number is 415. That’s the number of calls the ProStandards Committee fields on a yearly basis. On the show today, we’re going to talk to SWAPA ProStandards Chair Rick Grindstaff about w…

Today’s SWAPA number is 3/13. That’s the date our 2019 Profit Sharing will be funded. This year it will be equal to 12.2% of qualified earnings. On the show today, we’re going to talk to SWAPA’s Dire…

Today’s SWAPA number is 2 million. That’s the number data points Contract 2020 preparations produced. Over a period of three years, we received more than 200 blank sheet questions, and over 600 follo…

Today’s SWAPA number is 6, as in Section 6, the section of the Railway Labor Act that governs airline labor contract negotiations. On the show today, we’re going to talk to SWAPA General Counsel Hele…

Today’s SWAPA number is 346. That’s the number of pilots who are currently out on long term disability. Here to talk to us today about loss of license, our current disability plans, and what we hope …