Already happening. We are about halfway done parking a total of 28 Saab 340s and 29 E135s. Thats equals about 20% of our total fleet. But of course you dont see that on the slick APA videos bashing Eagle.

I guarantee AMR will sell/spin off AE in the future. AE will be much smaller flying a handful of 50-70seaters. There will be at least one other regional carrier (Republic/CHQ, Skywest) who will be flying a larger portion of the AA feed(70+seat a/c, E170/175s, CRJ900s). It will be cheaper for AMR to do this. They will whipsaw regionals against each other and payrates will drop. It wont be raising the bar for the profession, but it will be feeding AA the cheapest way possible. It is your scope clause that dictates regional flying, not AE's, so stay strong and dont budge.