But if SWA wants out of them they will get out of them one way or another. We could use them for sure, although its not worth selling our souls for.

And no matter how SWA dumps them, if they do, they will very likely be replaced by 737's anyway. I doubt SWA got AT just to quickly downsize by 86 airframes. They are biting their tongues trying to resist the urge to grow as it is. They don't want to dump that capacity, they just want to dump their second fleet type. So SW/AT won't have extra pilots because of that and I highly doubt DL would get very many extra pilot positions even if we got the 717's. At the very most we might recapture a little bit of the DCI outsource carnage and stagnation that every DL pilot has been paying for one way or another.

I wouldn't want to see SWA dump all those planes in one day, furlough 900 tranny pilots and then DL spool up 900 new hires just for those planes as pure mainline growth. But we all know that is not going to happen. It will take time for SWA/T to get out of all those planes as well as Xfering them to someone else, and 737 replacements will definately be a part of that deal.