Xjet "taking" 9E flying? That statement assumes that Pinnacle owned routes in the first place, but the cold hard fact is that they don't. Delta owns the routes, and all of Pinnacle's routes are mostly outsourced DC9 routes from the NWA days of 2000 to 2012. And no regional airline is taking another regional airlines flying, unless the mainline partner says so. This thread should be re-titled because it is inaccurate. You don't own any routes or flying when at a regional.