Southwest Airlines Careers

Flight Support - The Sky is the Limit

Our Flight Operations Department consists of Pilot Bases, a Flight Training Center, Operations Coordinator Center, Crew Scheduling, Planning, and Payroll and Administration. Our entire Flight Operations Team is dedicated to providing safe, efficient, and Customer-oriented flights. You can take your career at Southwest Airlines as high as you would like … and the sky really is the limit on the Flight Operations Team!

• Pilot Base:
  Managed by Chief Pilots and Crew Base Coordinators. The number of Pilots assigned to each base varies, from the largest in Phoenix to the smallest in Dallas.
  Locations: Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, Oakland, and Phoenix
• Flight Training Center: Our Flight Training Center currently houses seven state-of-the-art flight simulators.
  Location: Dallas near our Headquarters facility.
• Training Team:
  • Publications
  • Standards
  • Instructors
  • Check Airmen
  • Training Schedulers
  • Simulator Technicians
  • Administrators
• Operations Coordination Center (OCC):
  • Superintendents
  • Dispatchers
  • Air Traffic Control Specialists
• Flight Information Agents
• Meteorologists
• Maintenance Control
• Scheduling Department:
  • Crew Schedulers
  • Crew Planners
  • Flight Ops Payroll

Southwest Airlines is an equal opportunity employer.