I turned down swa after seeing my friends schedule for 4 months. He had been at swa almost 2 yrs and it was every weekend. Not one weekend off. Everyone is on the 737 he explained and you are competing with the entire seniority list and the only desirable attribute is weekdays. Company is awesome and every pax loves swa but that weekends forever deal didnt appeal to me. Maybe I screwed up but I wont know for a few years.
Right now guys in my bid group bid out for bigger airplanes which makes movement at AA pretty damn impressive. The awarded lines were horrible for me this summer as a junior guy but I was able improve every one of them and I didnt work more than 14 days a month all summer. We have ACD soon so those 19 day/90hr lines are history. We can drop to zero at AA (if the trip is green). In July, I dropped down to 20hrs which was nice.