It is predictable that the first thing your simple mind would do is start to compare payrates. After all, that is all you looked at when you saw the JCBA.

I never attempted to compare SWA with Colgan. What I did was attempt to compare AirTran's position in their merger with Colgan's position in our merger. They are in the same position, relatively speaking.

Now you are twisting what you said into a different scenario. You have interchanged AirTran and Colgan, which suggests you think pilots go to AirTran to build time and move on. (Which further demonstrates your inept attempt at maintaining a knowledgeable understanding of the airline industry.)

If I was at AirTran, a place that many pilots have decided to make their career destination, I would not view SWA as the savior that I should be so fortunate to be stapled to the bottom of the pilot group.

Being that I'm at Colgan and would like to eventually work at SWA, then it wouldn't matter to me, because as a new-hire I would be at the same place on the seniority list. Stapled to the bottom, so to speak. However that would not be fair to the pilots of Colgan that didn't have any intention of going to SWA, for whatever reason that may be. Which is why no matter what the situation, a simple staple job is inequitable.