SWA is not somewhere I want to be, I turned them down. (Mainly because I see them as a company that will stagnate, and probably take on a decent amount of debt as the fight to compete with the Transnational airlines of the next decade) FDX maybe, but a two year tour in Asia to get back to a US base may not be good for the SB either. For an Airline DAL can allow a pilot to fulfill their obligations to the company and still get a good bit of time off. I would just bid reserve the rest of my career.

What I am looking at would more than make up for anything I could every make here. If I actually jump in to one in particular, I would be looking at flying as extra in less than five years. It is one of the benefits of taking over a SB that is established, but that someone has not had the time nor the desire to re-invest in. One thing is for certain, there is a lot that I am unscrewing that a group of Doctors did. Man those guys can mess something up.

I am being very deliberate in this process. It would not be just taking a bite off the apple, but swallowing it whole. If this deal is not the one, there will be one that follows shortly after it that I will probably invest in.