Like I said most of the negative stuff won’t affect you if you’re local. I know several people who got hired at DAL or AA then went to UAL…because they lived in a UAL base where their previous legacy would have left them commuting for 25+ years.

I’ve got a buddy at an AA WO regional who is a 4 hour drive away from a UAL base with 3 flights a day and has 7 flights to another… he’s going to DAL because of 18hr reserve call out, no rolled days off on wide body reserve and no involuntary FSB. Icing on the cake for him is the ability to reserve the jumpseat at DAL and only needing 1 commuter flight own metal.