Using a game of chess as an analogy, we are capturing a bunch of rather useless pawns but lost more powerful bishops/knights or whatever you can think of. We are alowing the company the easy way out when things dont work out with their priced fleets of CRJs. What if in a few years, the 700s become uneconomical for whatever reason, what will we give up? How about the company retires all the 70 seaters and in exchange we let them fly, um, let say a fleet of 1 md88? Once you allow the scope ceiling to increase, there's no way to revert the damage. They will always dangle a carrot in front of us, either by new aircraft orders, financial gains, or threats of downsizing. These are all taught at the renowed business school of F. LORENZO!

DL mgmt WILL always want to farm out our flying, period. Do we even entertain this pathetic trade now, or do we hold the line?

DL can buy all the shiny rj they want, we just have to fly it, period. If our new hires can master the diesel 9 or the mighty MadDog, we can fly the barbie jets too.