Originally Posted by
Burt123
They didn’t share the pain with the other “media plagues” in the past. Regionals exist for this exact reason. Mainline wouldn’t hesitate to take a half full 737 off a route and replace it with a CRJ to save costs. You won’t see much effect at the regional level unless the economy takes a dump along with this.
Yes, initially in a downturn the major has to pay for contracted feed regardless, so they'll usually keep flying it.
If it drags out, regional feed could be reduced by natural contract expirations or possibly drug deals with regional managers (might be cheaper to pay them not to fly and save some costs, ie fuel).
Wholly Owned regionals are of course "owned", and not in a good way. They can typically do whatever they want, just like mainline.