Originally Posted by
CFIsoonToBeFO
UAL will let Mesa go bankrupt and pull their 175’s and give them to CommuteAir or SkyWest to operate. They will put mainline on the routes while those two regionals spool up pilots and instead of (3) 50-seaters daily departures from like ORD-DBQ, they will do one daily flight with a 737/A320 from ORD-DBQ moving the same amount of passengers with mainline Pilots.
Imagine getting to mainline and flying ORD-BMI 3x a day. God, just axe those cities and make people drive.