A business minded person would not continue to let profits leak to what are effectively competitors. X jet and TSA are losing that flying because they can not maintain it. Why isn’t Mesa going away? Because, they are, SOME WAY, still staffing the planes they are given to fly. I think you got a hint in the last town hall. Dion wants us to take more long haul routes. My guess is that American wants to take all the most lucrative routes for its WO companies, and leave the less popular routes with smaller margins to other reagionals. That would be the schrewd move. So as for who gets the flying the WOs don’t want in the end? Who ever will accept the crappy flying and can afford to operate like that, SkyWest will probably not accept that, Republic is probably a little more in-elastic, but my guess is what ever the bosom feeder airline of the day is.