This poll is going to be misleading. You forgot to put the option of how many people now plan on staying as a result of the merger.

That would be my choice. I had entertained the idea of leaving to AA before, in particular after ORD closure, but now? No way. It’s true AA has a massive amount of retirements, but they also have a massive amount of debt and just recorded almost a billion in losses in one quarter alone. Frontier (Indigo) just announced the largest aircraft order in history and a few months later bought into an airline 150% larger than itself. Throw in some inflation, fuel prices, and interest rate hikes, maybe even war. Choose very carefully. Agreed SWA is a much safer bet but a quick scan through their pages on this forum and it’s easy to see it’s not all roses over there either. Plenty of 5-6 year FOs leaving on to the legacies there too or looking out with envious eyes. This industry is all about timing and luck.