I hope something important (and good) happens soon. This thread is definitely stuck in a rut. I don't know what is worse - speculating on hypothetical merger SLIs or comparing our contract to SWA for 1000+ posts.

For all the guys who think SWA is that great just remember - Pilots were quiting SWA to go to DAL, UAL, and AMR 10 years ago. Their contract did not really get any better - almost every other contract went south. Its amazing that basically the same contract that guys were quiting over is now the envy of the industry.

I guess I picked the wrong decade to quit sniffing glue.

Scoop

I am not saying that we shouldn't shoot for SWA rates, that is a given, but lets not forget the other important things: Babe pictures, Scope, badmouthing management, ALPA, DPA, etc.