The problem is every Legacy with the exception of Continental was forced by their management to give up scope, under the guise of cutbacks in a post 9/11 environment. It's absolutely ridiculous what they did in the name of cutbacks and survival. Incidentally CAL survived without giving up scope.

Now we have management at all these airlines farming out flying to improve the bottom line without any concern about what having a company like mesa may do to their branding, or without any concern about their employees.

At the regional level, you got guys that are salivating at the chance of flying something bigger, without thought of what it means down the line for them. The regional jet should have stayed at 50 seats; imagine how many folks would be flying at a major/legacy right now!