ya IDK this is starting to get way outside my paygrade, but I know AA ie AE has very few 70 and no 90 seat jets, while Delta has a ton flying their logo. AA is running Dino 80s on routes that DAL is paying someone to fly with a CRJ900. To me that seems to be the biggest cost gap to AA, not paying a little extra to Eagle. Seems to me they are trying to figure out that scope issue more than anything.