"Better" is 100% relative.

Some would say "better" means your company is larger and/or growing, you have multiple codeshares, long-term contracts, fly bigger aircraft, make more money, have more time off, have union protection, a good labor/mgmt relationship, live and work where you want to live, better work rules, etc.

Working at Air Wisconsin I would say that we are no better or worse than Skywest; just different in many ways. What is "better" for me will not be "better" for you, and vice versa.