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Southwest Airlines

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Southwest Airlines is a major airline in the United States. It is headquartered in the Love Field neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It is the fourth-largest airline in North America when measured by passengers carried, as of 2024. With its all-Boeing 737 fleet, Southwest serves over 100 destinations in 42 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and ten other countries and territories near the southern United States in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea regions: Aruba, the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

From Wikipedia, as of Aug 7, 2026, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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2.8

4 reviews

100%

would recommend

20

pay reports

2.0

Great colleagues, exhausting month after month

Senior Cabin Crew · MDW · Jun 2026

TurbopropDirect hire1-3 yrs

Sick leave is not held against you, which matters more than people expect. The trade-off is a roster that assumes you will always be available on days off. [demo]

Pros

Pay arrives on time, every month.

Cons

Days off are theoretical.

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3.0

Fine if you live at base, brutal if you commute

First Officer · DAL · Feb 2026

WidebodyAgency1-3 yrsRecommends

Fatigue reports get acknowledged and then closed with no change. Safety reports are handled properly, so it is clearly a crewing problem rather than a culture problem, but that does not help when you are on your fourth…

Pros

Pay arrives on time, every month.

Cons

Crewing is unreachable when it matters.

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demo_TechStop · 3 reviews

3.0

Upgrade came on time, everything else slipped

Senior Cabin Crew · DEN · Jan 2026

WidebodyAgency0-1 yrsRecommends

Contract said one thing about days off and the reality is consistently two or three fewer a month. Everything else has been broadly as advertised. [demo]

Pros

Modern fleet, well maintained.

Cons

Commuting policy is far stricter than it reads.

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demo_Deadhead · 6 reviews

3.0

Fair pay, no roster stability at all

Captain · BWI · Dec 2025

WidebodyAgency0-1 yrsRecommends

Upgrade timelines were roughly what I was told at interview. Commuting policy is the thing to check carefully before you sign, because it is much stricter in practice than the contract implies. [demo]

Pros

Good route mix, not the same four sectors forever.

Cons

Crewing is unreachable when it matters.

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