Originally Posted by gloopy

That's clearly because DCI is the biggest. The others are smaller yet trying to grow. AA tried to find a home for their new large RJ's even in the face of a shrinking 50 seat fleet and couldn't find providers to do it until their last resort CPZ. Even then I think they made a miscalculation. Trans States is one of the most ruthless cut throat bottom feeders around, so they obviously said they could do it to get the deal. CPZ is one of the most stable right now and part of that was the flow through. But more than that was that throughout their entire history until very recently everyone went there for the flow. Even now they see a few grandfathered flow pilots leaving here and there for other places. IMO AA's bet on CPZ includes a lot of assumptions that are false and will not pan out.

UAL is way behind and one of the CHQ "air group" feeders had to pull down capacity as well because of staffing. Yet UEX thinks its going to grow! LOL!

Back to DCI, they have agressively started a process of removing a lot of pilot block hours by up gauging (at DCI and at mainline) and its still no where near enough.

I don't see any "express system" or whatever you want to call it that is safe from the inevitable staffing crisis that is already upon them. All of them.