Envoy has always been overstaffed because it doesn't matter if Envoy is profitable. We are just a subset of AAs labor group. We exist to keep the planes departing on time. There is a lot of room to squeeze more productivity out of each pilot if that was Envoy's purpose. We are still a deep discount to the mainline pilots. They can have 3 of us for every 1 at mainline.
Places that have their own balance sheets (Mesa, Skywest, GoJet, etc) they don't have hundreds of pilots sitting around logging 200 hrs per year on reserve. They want every pilot on their payroll logging as close to 1000 hrs a year as possible. When they get short staffed, the JMs, reassignments, and extensions get passed out like Halloween candy.