Watterson

The World Championship had lived a nomadic existence before promoter Mike Watterson took it to the Crucible almost half a century ago, heeding the advice of his wife, Carole, who had watched a play in the theatre and felt it had just the right attributes to stage a snooker event.

Geraldine Breslin was a 43-year-old married mother who worked as a shop assistant at Watterson's drapers.

Asked what Southwest could do to address the résumé washing practice, Watterson shrugged: “It’s literally impossible.”

Regional pilots “know that if I get Southwest or another airline on my résumé, I can get to where I want to go,” Watterson, the Southwest COO, said in a Dec. 13 interview in New York.

The process, which Southwest Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson called “résumé washing,” is a way for ambitious pilots to sidestep policies he said large U.S. carriers put in place to protect staffing for their associated regional airlines.