We evidently get our info from different sources. I know fmr AT dudes too.
If you think you're providing some kind of new and unique insight to the history, you're wrong.
You're cherry picking your facts, perhaps you should talk to a former Morris Pilot, or perhaps to a former AT pilot who voluntary left AT for SWA and then ended up jr to people he was senior to. Or perhaps to one of my close friends who interviewed at SWA twice, wasn't hired, then ended up at AT and is now f-ing ecstatic to have a SWA employee number.
Either way, I will shed nary a tear for WM. Maybe it's just him?