they are trying to reduce costs. back in january they had this report come out that showed how they compared to other large regionals like skywest, xpress jet, and rah. The findings were that eagle costs significantly more because they have higher seniority crews. The report also said that to make them more cost compettitve with the other regionals they needed to get rid of the senior ca's and fo's to bring down the amount of money they are spending on the crews per flight.