maybe, you have to remember every regional will have the hiring problem. At least management has the most control here on how to deal with it. Parking planes is one way, but if planes are not flying under say RAH as AE, then you bet they will try to fill the gap, and they have the bank roll to do it with the wholey owned RJ airlines. Giving a 50k newhire bonus is still cheaper than canceling massive amounts of flights. It will be their bandaid, as they shirt flying to mainline.

I agree with Eaglefly on the fact that Delta is the only one who is REALLY seeing the crystal ball in all this, and the purchase of PNCL in my opinion at least is a part of it.