Very true. Then again, our core reasons for not being as efficient are massive revenue generating sources of 100% management choice. It most certainly is not because we're riding high on elitist work rules that SWA can't touch.

They get to amortize a single fleet type while we get to set the marketing hounds lose on every single route with a plethora (is that even a real word?)

Three Amigos-What Is A Plethora? - YouTube

Anyway a plethora of fleet choices, including half of our flying outsourced, lets the company maximize revenue by company choice in such a way that on any given day, almost the entire fleet mix can serve a given city pair. While this rocks for the company, it sucks for pilot productivity. We get long sits (30+ hour short haul domestic) layovers, etc. and the company gets super premium revenue, then gets to turn around and use our "lack of productivity" against us come contract time, despite the fact that DL per pilot revenue is higher than SWA?

Bull butter.