Originally Posted by BoilerUP

Outsourced, fee for departure RJ feed would destroy Southwest's proven, profitable business model by jacking up their CASM and torpedoing their marketing strategy.

Southwest pilots have had PLENTY of opportunity to sit back and watch what has happened to the careers of their colleagues at legacies who have allowed progressively larger jet aircraft to be outsourced. Anything is possible...but for this reason alone I don't think this rumor is probable.