Boyd has failed again, scope at all mainlines and AA will be included allow up to 90 seats at the regional non mainline airline. so his statement of 80+seats back to in house aint gonna happen.

Boyd was all for the regional airlines and regional jets until he was hired by APA at AA and from then on he has gloom and doomed the regional airlines. Only reason he is even partly correct is because of the banking fiasco with mortgages and the oil speculations. If they had not happened, nothing he spouts would have even come close to happening.

He is correct in one way somewhat, that in house it will be, the mainlines will again start to own there feed airline so as to control the quality of customer service so they can stop loosing corporate accounts.

AA has to double is domestic regional feed just to be equal with DAL, UCAL and UCC. AA is not going to expand domestic coverage with the mainline just to compete with a E175 or CRJ900 aircraft. An AA cramped 757 and 737 is worse than AE's CRJ700's, that is a given fact.

Boyd is a paid consultant. As consultants do, what you want is what you pay for.