Feel sorry for those clueless enough to think they "don't have a dog in this fight". Once this dog is born he'll be turned loose to attack others. First in the ring will be the other AA/US wholly owneds who will get the ultimatum of merge/meet or be dissolved into PSA and then once that dog becomes a monster, the other regionals will be pushed into the ring to capitulate or be killed.

There is a building block strategy here and every regional pilot better hope and be confident they'll be at a major in 7 years or find themselves totally screwed on the next cyclical economic downturn trapped at a place they either thought they'd be gone from or didn't realize they indeed had a dog in the fight when they still had the possibility of avoidance or survival.

I see several thousand pilots in their mid-30's to late 50's trapped in a nightmare in 5 years with nowhere to run to.