Originally Posted by Mason32

...It's a double edged sword. The mainline companies need to be much more careful when negotiating around scope issues. IF, and I say again "IF" they do decide to give a scope concession (for whatever reason) they should insist upon language that restricts the scope concession to wholly owned regionals.
Likewise, the wholly owned regionals need to include scope clauses preventing them from being used as Republic currently is against Midwest.

The end result would be that places like Republic, Chataqua, Pinnacle would eventually be frozen out of work... since only the owned regionals would be able to get the new equipment...