This is all about career expectations. The career expectations of the acquirer, to use their partners own lobbyist words in Washington is low because it is a "stepping stone". Thus one can assume their career expectations are much lower than those at F9 and Midwest.

Who cares. This airline will fail anyways. What are these RAH yahoo's going to say when the new contract comes out with $40/hr top FO rates? Tout a quick upgrade? Instead of JetBlue rates (which is completely unreasonable), perhaps you can at least beat the old Horizon Dash 8-200 FO rates! Whopee!