Save a few short-sighted folks out there, I don't think anybody really wants scope relaxation. Its pretty clear when you have 7 daily flights to FWA from ORD in CRJ-700s that there is a problem. Mainline can barely break even and the regionals are raking in the cash? Either this is an elaborate money shuffle or something needs to be done.

Superpilot, I agree with many of your stances, but unfortunately I don't think XJT has anymore aces up their sleeves. This guess could certainly be wrong, but I think they would be smarter to either start securing more regional flying or give the planes back. I don't think the branded flying can support that much expansion (although you know better than I do) and just holding on to airframes to make CAL mad is childish and not in the best interest of the XJT pilots, the shareholders or anybody else that I can think of.