While I'm a huge supporter of hub basing, it won't happen any time soon. Our northern ops is funded by EAS which in turn controls the flight schedule to/from the out stations. You need a flight out early enough to catch the morning bank of departures out of the hub, and an evening flight late enough to allow people to connect from the evening bank of arrivals at the hub. The only way I see it working (with new rest rules nonetheless) is overnighting 2 crews or standup overnights. I'm curious how Colgan did bit, any of you guys care to chime in?