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Actually, it's happening already. Look at the routes you guys are doing on the 717. Those were DC9 routes back in the late 80's and early 90's. Then, later in the 90's we saw them transition to the CRJ. At UAL, we are decreasing UAX block hours and increasing UAL block hours and putting 737's and Airbuses on routes that have been flown by RJ's for the last 10-15 years.
That's the union sales job, but flying isn't going back to mainline. Mainline already owns the flying you speak of. If management had the pilots, they would bring back all the 50 seaters they parked in the desert, since the economics of them changed as fuel cratered recently.