Originally Posted by gloopy

Agreed. Mainline pilots definitely dropped the ball numerous times.

What are your thoughts on our management's typical approach to scope lately whereby they want to shrink DCI seats and block hours (probably only nominally this time, especially seats) in exchange for more 76ers but less hulls/hours/seats overall?

Personally I don't like it because it breaths some degree of life and sustainability into the regional model going forward. However the case could be made that it does indeed shrink the size of regionals and transfers a little of the pilot count to mainline.