They have wanted to dump CLE for years. The rhetoric about the new regulations is their way of sending a message to Congress... read the words. They are not saying there are no pilots, they said the "pool of available pilots" so this is the second round of management trying to get the 1500 hr rule reduced to the level of pilots who are "available." They lost the first round to the 3407 families.

Kind of crazy though, how under the new system a 1500 hour pilot with 2 or 3 DUI apparently contributes more to increasing safety than a 500 hour pilot with a clean record. But, hey, I only work here.