Look, I understand your opinion, but I believe it's narrow-minded to think that any flying belongs to anyone but mainline. We live and work in a world of code shares that expire and go out for bid again and again. In a perfect world we all would be able to retain our current flying levels with even distribution of growth. In a perfect world we would all be under one nationwide union with nationwide equipment rates and work rules. Actually in a perfect world there would be no need for unions at all. In a perfect world fuel and energy would be in an abundant supply with little to impact on our environment, starvation wouldn’t exists, no one would lie, no adultery, no murder, no crime……………………………………….. Need I go on?

My point is other than our (SKW) At-Risk flying in LAX, SFO, PDX and SLC; 95% of our flying either belongs to UAL, DAL or Midwest. It's not ours just like 9E's flying is not theirs, most of XJT's flying belongs to CAL/DAL, RAH's belongs to UAL/DAL/CAL/US/F9. Skyway's flying was Midwest's and if we didn't win the bid then someone else would have. It was Midwest’s choice and no one else’s, period.

Once again, we do not live in a perfect world nor do we, at the regional level, own our flying. This is our industries harsh reality but it should come as no surprise.