Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

***I don't want this to be a flame fest as it's being posted for actual debate.***

It's almost impossible to count how many times people have said, "The more regionals there are the less main line flying there is". I read this all the time. You see people posting things like "the legacy guys are lossing more and more of their flying to regionals". Has anyone actually crunched any numbers?

I didn't go severly in-depth here but take a look at this. http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_...ers/index.html I was looking at Continental over the years and they currently employ more people and fly more than they ever did before. So for those constantly saying that mainline flying is going south because of 175's and CRJ 900's where is it showing this? Did any major actually fly into places like Akron and Dayton Ohio prior to regional service? (Rhetorical)

The questions I don't know are this. What mainline routes that use to exist and were of higher capacity were given away to regionals? What current regional routes do you think mainline would be able to support?