Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Exactly.

I saw this year's ago when the DAL network folks were still with CAL. At the time the 735 was doing IAH-BNA. 4 flights per day, nearly 100% of the time they were full. BNA folks wanted a larger jet on the route.

They got instead 4 ERJ-145s. Not 8 to maintain capcity. Just 4. They cut capacity in half. Want to fly on that route? You'll need to pay more.

We hired those folks to run the network with this mantra: determine what jet the route needs then cut that in half and that's the one you get.