Originally Posted by SailorJerry

Just a thought. Delta Air Lines, Delta Shuttle, and Delta Express have all been painted on the side of airplanes flown by "mainline" pilots. If EB was talking about up gauging "Delta Connection" flying he may very well be talking about it as a brand, not as "Pinnacle and Skywest will do great at this". At that level of the company, to the executives and their talking points, it's really all the same. I don't know what it says on the side of my airplane but I'd feel awfully good to fly an airplane that said Delta Connection on the side and "Operated by Delta Air Lines" by the door.