eaglefly, you lack a business understanding. I bet you think that its ok to have all these federal entitlements like oh say the PBGC, and its ok to run around with a 16+ trillion debt that is increasing by 1 trillion a year! As long as you get your medicare and SSI and PBGC, then your happy because you got your own.

The second you make a REGIONAL a high paying career destination, someone creates an upstart with new employees system wide and they come and compete. Suddenly you either take cuts to compete or go away. Seems to be in every industry in this country. We are labor. Now Eagle faces the problem that they are expensive, and either they can fix that or someone like Mesa, gojet, or TSA will take the flying at 20% less rates.

Same reason Southwest and other low costs eat into mainline flying so easily. Just wait till someone pulls it off successfully on an international scale.