I did the "flight" first. No matter how much you practice at home with a 7 minute count-down, time there goes way faster than at home. Force yourself to scan the laptop, think of it as your panel when you are hand-flying, really. First time I looked at it I thought it would read 3 minutes to go based on my home practice experience: it read 12 seconds to go! Had to wrap it up in that time, not fun. People here say "do what you do when you are at work". I disagree, if I have to divert and there are no good options I'm going to take longer than 7 minutes. You must cut corners, delegate to the jumpseater as much as you can (I didn't), don't verbalize everything (you can explain during the debrief), make a decision EARLY, it might be just 1 minute before end of exercise. All the options suck, any of them will have at least 1 drawback so it doesn't matter which you chose, pick one, at random if it needs to.

I used th edebriefing to my advantage to explain what happened: no BS, admit to your mistakes, I said I was not scanning my panel and tell them why and what you were trying to do. These guys are truly there to help you and they want you to do well, act as if you and them are on the same team. After this I was depressed, sure I failed, and even considered just leaving early and not go to the interviews. Ended up being hired, my conclusion: the flight doesn't count too much unless you really just sit there as a bump on a log.
First interview was with HR person, second with retired Capt., 3rd with logbook.

Honesty is the name of the game: open up, forget it's an interview and how much is at stake and just talk to them as if it was with your best pilot-friend. That's what I did and they really liked it. HR lady even congratulated me for my openess. I'm not that much of a talker normally but I really made an effort here to "come out of my shell". The retired Capt. told me "I convinced him". My logbooks (15 years of them) are a mess with mistakes and non-matching totals. I spen 2 weeks time ago to find all (or most) of them and printed a page of Errata. The guy was impressed with it and barely looked at the logbooks.

They all asked me the same questions. I come from another National airline and they wanted to know why I would leave my present job for them. Gave the same answer to all of them and I guessed it worked.
Now I'm in the pool waiting for the call. Good luck, hope this helps.

Very laid back. Three people, one HR, one retired 737 Capt, and one current training Capt. All asked tell me about the time.... Give me you best quality, give me your worst quality. Reviewed my qualifications and answered my questions. Reviewed what they have to offer and asked what I have to offer. Received a call six days later and offered a class.

The gouge pretty much covers it all. SWA really DOES want you to feel relaxed and wants to get to know you. There are no tricks, no point systems, nothing like that. It really comes down to whether or not the inerviewer and you could establish enough rapport to feel like they got to know you. I was really relaxed as this was my second SWA interview.
I really think working for this company comes down to customer service. It really is all about that. Good luck to all and I hope you find your way in the airline world.

All info posted here was pretty much on the money. Dont overthink the LOI - I really think that if you put yourself in the seat and make the same decisions that you would make everyday on the job - you would not screw it up.
The questions were TMAT type and pretty much all three interviewers seemed to have the same bank, different way of asking. Try to maintain your enthusiasm telling the story for the 3rd time - it might have been my downfall - great experience, great people got fingers crossed Good luck