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Regionals fly routes that are too thin to justify major airlines. They fly 50-70 seat airliners.

Wrong Major. Get on the DAL web site and see how many seats are on the "thin" route between ATL and AGS, for example. I remember flying 727s several times a day on that route. Close to a 1000 seats a day. How many seats are flying direct LGA, bypassing hubs. In ATL, almost 700 seats a day are flown direct and bypassing the ATL hub from close in old "traditional" Delta airports. How about this one. The larger the number of regional jets a major affiliates with, the more money they lose. Or in other words, take a look at the airlines that have little or no regional affiliates, SWA, AirTran, JetBlue, and I would say CAL affiliates have a smaller footprint than those of DAL, UAL, American, UsAir, NWAAmerican) all in BK. What is the seat mile cost for an RJ compared to your 737NG.

How about this one, Major, would you have taken a job at a union carrier that way undercut the industry standard? And should we have continued to allow FEDEx to ride our jumpseats when years ago they negotiated a contract with the a$$istance of ALPA, then voted ALPA out afterwards, but now have voted them back in. It is a tough rope to walk when you have so many absolutes.

Again, not many answers from ole green face, just snappy oneliners calling folks stupid.