In my opinion base matters so much more than anything else and I have a hunch that upgrade time might come down a bit in the semi near future based on retirements finally ramping up and the way the company is behaving around expansion and potential fleet changes. SWA is a laid back environment and with a little seniority can do some pretty unique things with your schedule. Great place to work, although we have our issues like anywhere else. UAL is definitely the hot ticket right now and looks like it may be that way for a while. I had offers from both as well and chose SWA due to domicile preference and I don’t regret it one bit, despite my friends at UAL and DAL telling me I do. I wanna believe that we are starting to break out of the awkward stages of re structuring the airline and that in a year or two this place will be back to some of the strongest financials in the industry along with the lowest debt. Maybe I’m too optimistic, but maybe not. Ultimately up to you, but if you end up commuting for a long time the annoyance of that will overtake the shine of being at the big ticket place. Can’t go wrong either way. Good luck to you.