Well maybe not Network, but who other than the passengers and the gate agent get stuck with the headache of random XYZ regional CRJ-900 breaking down at the hub where they don't have maintenance? I know we do that at an outstation but at a hub? Had it been the former regional that owned that hub, would it have even been a delay?

My wife has had friends on three separate occasions in the past year be on business trips and get stuck on the first leg out of ATL for CRJ-700/900s having an issue but there is no maintenance. Maybe it was a simple issue and could've been resolved quickly had it been ASA. But it wasn't and they delayed the flight six or seven hours and well they all walked away because they missed their meetings. One was to HOU another was to one of the Panhandle airports and I forgot the other. Actually, one person was supposed to leave early in the morning and give a speech that night at 7pm, they made that by a few minutes to spare.

I know we'll never go back to one regional per hub but it seems like it would be the most efficient operation wise... until there is a strike. Seems like shuffling flying around might have been the best way to break a regionals leverage.