Originally Posted by love2av8

Well the 200's out of DFW will not need to get up into the mid 30's cause they will be doing all the short haul flying.
As for the reason, well AMR doesn't want all it's eggs in one basket - Eagle. They want to be able to play regionals against each other to get the lowest price. Right now they must be willing to pay a little premium to farm out that flying so they can scare the AE pilot group into a concessionary contract.
Closing LAX as an Eagle base - well it's the only domicile that other bases don't fly thru. Meaning a DFW pilot will pass thru ORD or MIA on their sequence, but not thru LAX. This creates issues with spare planes, crews, etc. Not to mention its a pretty small base to begin with.
Just my $0.02.