Doubtful. All the problems associated with picking up Eagle would be a disaster. My thoughts...Eagle gets spunoff into it's own thing, loses some AA flying since they'll want to diversify and picks up other codeshares to compensate (a la Xjet). I don't see AA looking at the 170, although stranger things have happened.

The days of a regional flying exclusively for one code share partner are over. It's much more beneficial to both mainline AND regional carriers to spread their risk out over multiple companies. I can remember a time where if you said "Pinnacle and Xjet are going to do Delta flying" you'd get laughed off of this board....

As far as the Eagle/AA flowthru...I hate to break it to Eagle guys but that whole thing is a pipe dream. Even if it DOES happen, the people that actually get to flowthru would have been better off getting hired off the street by other legacies (CAL, DAL, etc) YEARS prior when they were qualified to get there.