Originally Posted by MD80

OK, I know I'm responding to my own posting...

Let's say Republic goes bankrupt. If we think about career expectation as your chance of interviewing at a major. It comes down to ...

--- Do you have something like 4000+ TT and 1000+ turbine PIC

If you have it, you can interview for any First Officer position in the USA. You would have an equal career (rehire) expectation to anyone.

Who can say a company would have survived or not? Frontier could be part of SWA and Midwest could be part of AirTran or both maybe bankrupt. Career expectation in this integration is not going to be like NWA/Delta.