Any SWAPA members here? I'm looking for the Jan 1989 issue of Reporting Point
I've emailed SWAPA but no reply yet,
I’m currently taking a class on the airline industry, and I’m writing about Southwest airlines in the late 80s/early 90s.
SWAPA currently has a ‘history book’ on their website and in it, Captain Van Overschelde mentions that members’ ideas surrounding changes to Open Time bidding were published in a “special edition” of Reporting Point in January 1989.
Understanding how line bidding worked at SWA during this period would be insanely helpful to my project, but it seems like if a Reporting Point archive does exist, it hasn’t been reproduced anywhere accessible to the public :(
The linktree in the SWAPA Instagram bio has a link to the latest issue of Reporting Point, this is the URL;
https://www.swapa.org/internal/news/swapa-publications/reporting-point/
It's internal access only, so if any SWA pilots could do me a massive solid and check for the Jan 1989 issue I will be forever grateful!
Posted Nov 5, 2025, 1:49 AM UTC