Happyflyer

This is incorrect, after the BK and mergers airlines realized that parking the planes and controlling capacity is much more profitable than going for growth with high volume and low yeilds.
Richard Anderson has been recorded several times saying he targets 1% growth due to demand, has never expressed desire to grow market share through capacity growth and risking margins.
His plan to capture market share was offer a better product, while maintaining higher operational and quality control by bringing the flying back in house.
Southwest announced 8% capacity growth a year or so ago and Wall Street dumped the stock, the new norm is capacity discipline in favor of margins.
No aviation company in America that is recruiting pilots and offers 60k a year is having jobs go unfilled and being forced to downsize. That is what is takes to raise a family and have a spouse to be able to help with children. What you are talking about is companies recruiting young adults to pay 20k a year to who have no responsibility and live with their parents.