This industry is has been turning into one big incestual backwoods cluster-f*ck where legacy carriers diversify by having multiple regional partners and regional partners have multiple codeshares they operate under (we're up to 6 here at RAH). CAL is just trying to keep up.

I wouldn't worry too much about XJT, they are big enough and flexible enough that you will probably see them pick up flying from UAL/DAL/US Air sometime soon. And then you'll see RAH guys bitchin' about those back stabbing XJT'ers that took all our flying away