Originally Posted by
Eric Stratton
Eaglefly, what do routes have to do with it. Regionals don't set the routes they're going to fly. Regional management doesn't tell mainline these are our routes and those are yours. No regional owns the flying it does. If mainline management decided to bring all of the flying back in, there is nothing the regionals could do. It's not going to happen but there isn't anything they could do about it.
As for profitability, I would say that most managements don't know how to make a profit.
My point involved another poster declaring that they (mainline) should take it ALL back. If you're right and no pilot group "owns" the flying it does, then by the same token they don't own their airplanes, crew rooms or uniforms either (at least the right to wear them).
I guess then management owns the air we breathe and we should be thankful for them allowing us to use THEIR air. Economics is the only reason management hasn't decided to bring that flying back in (to mainline), and unless something changes with this industries economics, then you're right there too, it's not going to happen regardless of threats, brinksmanship or tantrums.
The time to control the disease was in its infancy when economics weren't so dire and the scurge had not spread. That boat has sailed into oblivion forever never to return. But be of good cheer, as the fat cats in Herndon will contine to swell nicely for years to come while you (and me) the poor gullible saps whose income is the gas that swells them continue to beg for scraps and eye food on each others plates.
Sounds like a good deal to me................how about you ?