Originally Posted by rickair7777

Yawn.

Traditional LCC/ULCC business model doesn't involve hub n' spoke with regional feed anyway. They got scope easily because
1) It was worth something in negotiations.
2) The company didn't need it anyway. Although SWA probably wishes they had more flexibility today.

AS pilots probably could have got it on the cheap too pre-horizon, although I don't pretend to know all of the history.