Pretty crappy thing to say to a guy that invested his career into an airline that was, for most, a retirement airline. Especially since those jobs were outsourced to the RAH pilots. Frontier, post 9-11, was also a "retirement airline" and the attrition rate was almost nonexistent until they were bought by Republic. So call it a stepping stone if you like, but most F9 pilots targeted this airline and planned to never move on until now.