We may not be able to completely put the genie back, but we can limit regionals effectiveness by making it less profitable to use us. Every contract that comes up has to be a major improvement over the last one at the company. I think ASA's contract should be a benchmark for us all to shoot for. No one significantly below ASA...it should be the new average. PNCL, MESA, MESABA etc all have to come up to meet ASA. Then the leading contracts step out a little more. We cannot do it all at once, but little by little we raise our prices until we can price regionals out of expansion and move flying by economics back to mainline.
Someone will probably start a new regional, etc. if we try to do it too quickly with MESABA/PNCL/MESA type contract going from bottom to the top, but if we turn up the heat slowly, I think we can do it.