Originally Posted by airspeedsalive

That may be true, but it will be interesting to see what happens to pilot salary’s at the Majors. One of the reasons that they pay as well as they do is that the regionals fly a lot of their routes so cheaply. If the regionals go away while the majors are shrinking, will the rates stay where they are? I don’t know. From what I’ve read it seems that the majors are going to be competing even more directly with the LLC’s for the low-fare leisure market. It seems to me that American was already headed down that road even before the virus got started.