Originally Posted by ToiletDuck

I think an important thing to remember is that not a single pilot here is involved in the logistics of their major codeshare. It's easy to say "mainline jobs were taken" when in reality there is no backing to this statement what-so-ever. You seem to forget that regionals provide FEED. So the next question is feed to where? Well they provide feed to the major hubs so that pax can get on the larger plane and go places far away. I've looked all over and cannot find any numbers showing how many pax on an international airliner are sitting there because a regional got them to the airport. It would be interesting to see. Have the staffing levels at majors been cut because of regional flying or has regional flying just been used as a way to expand within the US giving the majors more markets to work with? What routes are being moved from major down? If they were profitable the would have kept them. Delta started it's first ever service into Winnipeg using SKYW. That didn't take away a single mainline job and couldn't have supported a mainline aircraft to start with. Most of the flying being done by a regional aircraft are into a regional market that couldn't support the larger aircraft.