No, they don't. See UAL just started making something close to what Delta is making and they already are spending $1.5B of it on share repurchases. What does put more money in our pockets is mainline growth and the pormotions and upgrades that come with it.

United and Delta are shockingly finding using more mainline aircraft with more amenities, more seats for basic economy and with no change fees that they are pulling passengers from the ULCCs, LCCs and P2P carriers. They are also finding that fewer RJs means better utilization of the precious gates and throughput at our hubs resulting in better operational performance which creates more customer loyalty.

The CRJ-550 is a crap product. Putting it on longer routes will only make it worse on our passengers, and as the cities list posted shows these markets are the least lucrative if not money losers. It is not a coincidence that the network carrier with the weakest scope is the least profitable. That dog simply doesn't hunt.

I get it. You appear to be a Skywest pilot so union scope protections are Greek to you.