I agree with Dehav - you pay for endorsements one way or the other; the low "training" salary for the first 6 months and then the legacy airlines put you on a scaled pay for the next ten years (still repaying the endorsement), but this has always been the more palatable approach and perhaps the traditional way...till the advent of LCC's.
This thread started off as a discussion as to who was going to crew the B717 within WA. With Mr Dickson's current strategy of having a number of separate airlines competing against each other, my bet is on NJS succeeding.