That's the sort of thinking that led to up to 60% of daily departures being flown by C-scale regional pilots at some legacies. Just because some over at DALPA way back though their squadron buddies were too good to start in a 50 seat aircraft. It's a lucky break that up-gauging and the pilot shortage is cause regional flying to diminish.

It's up to management to decide what airplanes we will have, but Southwest has the best scope in the industry and whatever aircraft management has up operate we will operate them and be highly compensated.