I (and I bet everyone on ML and DCI would) absolutely agree with you on that.

But I was just thinking that the low utilization might be purposeful by NWA? I wonder now with a plethora of parts available (via the desert) and the prospect of fuel prices getting cheap once our hedges run out, then I'm sure they could cheaply increase 9 utilization. I wonder if mx and fuel were the biggest factors to keeping utilization low? And if so, how much would they really increase utilization- 11 hours like the 88?

Actually, makes me wonder if the 88's utilization will start increasing even more.

But here is a question, say you bump all of the 9s up to 11 hours from 7-8, do we just take the flying back from DCI? Then are you stuck paying (in some form or fashion) DCI for flying they're not doing?