***rumor warning***

A slight tangent, but as far as RAH parking 175s mentioned earlier due to lack of pilots; A little birdy tells me that the regionals are starting to gain leverage through their onslaught of lobbying the FAA. Sorta like Great Lakes did to get lower hour pilots. Now I'm not saying the regionals are all gonna pull out seats and go part 135, but it seems the FAA is softening to the idea of hour reductions in exchange for more sims, more IOE, more check rides and LOFTs...Basically a regional sets up its own low time pilot seasoning syllabus.

Again , I do NOT claim to have personally talked to Bedford or any CEO nor anyone important at the FAA. Just second hand from people a bit lower down the totem pole. I say all this because it wouldn't surprise me after the Lakes saga where the FAA held firm for several months, but eventually the FAA relented and lower time pilots were allowed.