You miss my point entirely. It is not the scope I object to--which is bad enough, it is the marketing of express services as UAL, with very little or no mention that it is not UAL doing the flying.

In fact, at our LEC meeting this week, if you are watching the express carriers at all, they are all dying. The less than 76 seat RJ's, the 50 seaters especially, are hemorrhaging money, and are being parked far faster than they can get replacements. Which does not really matter because they can't hire enough pilots with the minimum requirements to staff the flying.

The company has announced that the A319's will essentially be flying RJ routes this summer because the express carriers can't handle the load or economics. Hmmm....could that be what we have wanted all along? I honestly wonder how this will turn out?