From a pilot perspective, been watching all the CRJ bases shrink for the past 12 months. That should be expected given the best flying for AA are going to their wholly owned regionals. It is obvious AA, like Delta, is minimizing their use of non-owned regionals.

Only IAH has grown from a pilot perspective. If we start losing United flying to Republic, I suspect you will see the pilot growth reverse there.

Other regionals have faster upgrades (Envoy, SkyWest, Compass) than Mesa, better benefits, better pay, and better QOL (except for SkyWest’s reserve pilots rules are much worse than Mesa’s).

With SkyWest opening DFW later this summer, I am thinking about leaving myself.