Yes. You're welcome! Actually, and in all fairness, we are trying to preserve those jobs at the mainline so that we have a decent job there to 'graduate' to, if you will. We would much rather stick to smaller airframes (since that is all they will pay us for) while at the regionals, so that it makes for more pilot seats available for us to get hired into at the mainline. I'd rather fly the group 1 aircraft at mainline, at mainline pay, than fly the same aircraft at Eagle, for Eagle pay. Does that make sense?

Having said all of that, I doubt that the good folks at APA would fall for giving up scope. I think it will be a non-issue. They are smart enough to fight like hell to keep as much flying in house as they can. As they should. What I was saying in the original post, is that by the regionals capitulating to more concessions, it would make for more effort for APA to justify keeping flying in house (retain scope).