Southwest Airlines has terminated the captain who flew the 737 that was crashed at La Guardia airport some months ago.  This was done, according to SWA, after an intensive internal review of what happened.  The First Officer flying that day is being re-trained.

The Southwest pilots union has expressed their disappointment at the termination in such a way as to make me believe they barely found enough energy to do their unionly duties and object to a pilot’s termination.  In other words, I think the union really didn’t mind this one.

Southwest and Southwest’s pilots have exceptionally high standards and these guys work very hard to be the best of the best in their business.  By all accounts, they don’t tolerate fools.  It sounds like they don’t want to tolerate this one and that’s OK.

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