Any airline wanting to do regional flying for AA will be limited by the scope clause in the AA APA contract. AA doesn't want any regional flying equipment with more than 50 or so seats. The few exceptions being the CRJ and the ATR Eagle operates (which by the way, Eagle wanting to exercise options for 50 CRJs was a huge point of contention with the new flow through agreement falling apart).

So if RAH (or anyone for that matter) did ultimately acquire some AA regional routes it would have to be done with something 50 seats or less.

But, I think all of this is a good thing for Eagle though. The EX certificate allows us a lot of freedom to add more routes, more equipment and expand.