for reference, Republic’s 2019 Q2/3 staffing cost was 271 million. All airlines were awarded 76% of what they requested to spread the 25 billion evenly through all that requested it. So while ExpressJet may not have received any money, I’m sure the money is allocated. It’s a mater of your management and the treasury coming to an agreement on executing all of this. Same thing with us.

No, actually he said and I quote “Meanwhile all our regional competitors (except for skywest) fell under the $100 Million Threshold”.
Expressjet operates 50 seaters, they are no longer our competitor. He never made the claim that “every regional” was below 100 mil.