Originally Posted by
Squallrider
It will always make more financial sense to outsource certain routes to regionals, there will be consolidation at regional level and larger regional aircraft flying small regional aircraft routes now less frequently. Any business that can get labor cheaper and mitigate risk by contracting to a third party will take that unless there's risk that that feed won't be reliable.
That's true, but he's saying the need to utilize spoke feed is diminishing, not that it is cheaper to use mainline on an RJ route. He's somewhat staying that the legacys are going to have a larger point to point system, and that model will require less RJ's.