You know what would be a peculiar situation and this gets back to 88's point of the true average SWA salary, but what if DAL got the 717s from SWA/AAI post AAI pilots getting pay parity and before we get a contract.

DAL pilots would be flying an AirTran airplane for $40-$50K less per year and per seat than the AirTran pilots were.

Now that would ruffle some feathers because lost in the %s talk is something tangible and that is SWA pays their reserve domestic 737 pilots more than DAL 777/747 reserve pilots who could on a 2 hour notice fly their jet to the other side of the world. And that we could end up flying their airplanes for $40-$50K less.

Not to sound like a broken record but this SWA/AAI merger is very useful to us and to a good extent, Delta. I think we'll all benefit in time. Not saying Carl or T have to give em' a hug, just ask for equal pay for equal work.... plus, unless of course they want to get rid of all outsourced flying... then maybe 1:1.