I'd take that with a grain of salt. When AirTran signed a contract with Air Whiskey and Jet Blue announced their E190s, Southwest said that they had no interest in operating RJs. Two years later, AW is no longer flying for AirTran, Jet Blue is having teething problems with their E190s, and Independence Air is out of business. It seems that high fuel prices make RJs inefficient in general. In particular they don't work well as low fare airplanes because the cost per seat mile is just too high.

Likewise, I've gone from Indy to ASA. If I move again, I want it to be out of the regional industry.