Originally Posted by
SayAlt
My apologies. I totally flubbed it and misread "SkyWest" as "Southwest".
Mea culpa; good points; post deleted.
No worries. I hope that the regional guys are seeing how mainline fleet plans are changing where the plan is to shrink their regional feed and expand mainline. It will mean less jobs, but better jobs for pilots.
If you go to this page:
United Continental Holdings, Inc. - Investor Relations - Investor Relations
Click on Investor Updates. Pull up the latest.
Mainline: +21 planes for 2015
Regional: -63 planes for 2015. It's +49 EMB175, -112 smaller aircraft.