Mon, Oct 27, 2008
Will Lead SWAPA Through 2010
Southwest Airlines pilots re-elected Capt. Carl Kuwitzky last
week, for a second two-year term as Union president.
Kuwitzky received 82 percent of the vote in the election to
represent almost 6,000 pilots. An Oklahoma native, Kuwitzky has
been a pilot at Southwest Airlines since July 1983 and is currently
based at Dallas Love Field (DAL).
"I am excited and honored the pilots of Southwest Airlines have
chosen to re-elect me as president for the next two years," said
Kuwitzky. "Many of the initiatives that began during my first term,
especially as we continue to negotiate a new contract with
Southwest Airlines and work to address national safety and security
issues, are not complete and I am looking forward to seeing these
projects to their conclusion. Serving the most experienced pilot
group at the nation's number one carrier of domestic passengers is
an honor and a privilege that I do not take lightly."
Kuwitzky's lengthy service with SWAPA includes time as the
Association's vice-president in 2006, as a member of the Board of
Directors representing Phoenix and Houston Hobby and also as
chairman of both the Scheduling and Air Safety committees. He also
served as a member of the Negotiating Committee and merger
committee during the Southwest Airlines acquisition of Muse Air in
1986.
SWAPA says Kuwitzky and union leaders are continuing work on
national issues such as cabotage/foreign ownership by participating
in an advisory role in US/EU "Open Skies" treaty negotiations. The
union adds Kuwitzky's leadership was instrumental in helping to
obtain the nation's first biometric crew identification
demonstration project now underway at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood
Marshall International Airport (BWI).
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