Originally Posted by El10

One myth that needs to be put to bed is that mainline will get flying back. If attrition stays on the same pace and shrinking occurs at the regional level the effects will be the smaller communities served will lose service. This will come in the form of less frequency or the spoke being connected to less hubs. Right now DAL is the only one adding back mainline service to places it used to fly, but they only have about 50 more 717s to come online. Current costs at UAL are going to prevent them from bringing on line 100 seaters. To early to tell what AA is going to do, but they do have a full plate for the next few years.

Do not miss understand this to mean I do not support what is going on. I think its great to see the sector banding together.