acl65pilot,

Any ideas on if DAL is considering following suit? I know they claim by positioning ourselves early we are avoiding this but I don't know. Interesting to note that neither CAL or UAL is considering connection reductions on this round. To me, this will only increase their aggregate costs as you remove more efficient a/c (per pax) and retain less efficient a/c (RJ). The Captain I just flew with and I discussed this at length heading out to California the other day. We feel that the proverbial crap will hit the fan in the fall. The leisure traveller will still fly this summer but drop off a cliff come September. JBLU, AirTran, Frontier, Spirit I feel will really feel the hurt then. In the end, the "free market" will begin to go back to the regulated era of several mainline flights a day vs. 10x regional flights a day, fares will price out the low cost leisure traveller, the barrier to entry will be to high for upstarts, etc. We will see. My heart goes out to everyone right now.