Sure, "stable" is relative nowadays, however I'll take CAL, NWA/DAL, UPS, FDX over VA, AT, JB any day. Of course the best airline to work for is the one that hires you - until the next better one does.

And my take is the LCC model is flawed as a long term going concern - it's in and out, big bucks for a few investors, and leave the industry a worst place in it's aftermath. The "I've got mine" vitriol should be saved for the charlatans who conceive these outfits - they are the only ones who remotely win. LCC's are the hedge funds of the airline biz.

As to the "we" I was referring to are the collective rationalization of pilots at these LCC's, whose willingness to work for lower than standard wages helped lower the bar, now crow "we pay just as much as UAL", etc.