727drvr is right.... I was a card carrying member of APA Eagle.... unity... what a joke that was....
Scope caved at AA and every other carrier because the pilots looked down their collective noses at "comuters"...regionals...whatever you want to call it... they didnt want to fly small jets or BIG turboprops....they have "evolved" past aircraft that size .... and wanted more to fly them than the company would or could pay... hell AA pilots hated the F100 because they felt it was too small..and the pay as crap..... CA on the F100's made about 120000 a year in early 90's dollars... imagine that......and it wasnt enough.
round and round it goes and where it stops ....nobody knows.....