i'm not talking about outsourcing. i'm saying that republic and skywest buy 190's, use their current certificate or create another one if they have to. The paint on the side of the plane will say republic airways or skywest airlines, not united express or delta connection. Then, when a passenger buys a ticket from EWR-ORD-CID, the first leg is a united airlines flight and the second leg is a republic airways flight. It's not different than united selling a connecting ticket on air canada or lufthansa. United codeshares with Air Canada and they fly 190's, how is it any different? (think the expressjet toothpase airline, but sucessfully codesharing with united where united sells 90%of their tickets). skywest and trans states are actually positioned perfectly for this with their MRJ order. They can cancel them if they want at no cost, because the manufacturer missed milestones, if majors don't relax their scope or an idea like mine doesn't come to fruition. Or, they convert their orders in to the larger plane 5 years from now and voila