What are you smoking? RAH has three, well actually 4, certificates already for that exact reason. Anything bigger than 50 seats is on another certificate. If they needed flying with bigger seat counts they'd use one of the other certificates. Will we start flying bigger planes once our contracts with AA & Continental are up? Fly them for who? Are you saying you expect CHQ to magically jump from 50 seats up to 70+, violating other people's scope so we'd lose their business, when they could simply use the Republic or Shuttle tickets? Don't forget that once again if it's above 50 seats it wouldn't be on the CHQ ticket. We aren't simply going to just start flying 170/175s for AA and Continental. Scope is on their end, not ours, and with them in negotiations and the company making money hand over fist it isn't changing.

The thing that Bedford is currently grinding his wheels on is thinking about starting his own "airline" that's part of skyteam using 175s to try and bypass Continental scope. How do I know this? He said it when he came to Columbus for the meetings in the crew room. Whether or not this is possible is beyond me as you'd have to get your hands on some pretty serious inside info. Regardless of what happens CHQ is completely out of the picture with that. I think RAH even has a 737 laying around somewhere so no telling what they've got their mind on doing.