Originally Posted by Herkflyr

You are correct. In fact we should emulate their pay and rig guarantees as much as we can. However, you must also acknowledge that they have long been able to work as much as they wanted, without much limitations towards concepts of max pickup, etc. At most other carriers, including DAL, there has always been the mindset of restricting guys' ability to fly more--without forcing it like CAL and the RJ carriers always have--so we can featherbed the seniority list. A SWA guy would state that the ability of guys currently on the property to fly what they want trumps some concept of hiring a dude currently in middle school at some point in the future.