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My simple guess is just what you summized; they are losing flying and have to make a bed somehow to keep the doors open. BB has always had a hard on for being a "big". We've said it here for six months or more that contract flying is going away for good for some companies.
Contraction in the regionals is a given.
I think this is exactly whats happening. This is what XJT did after the CAL cuts. XJT mgmt grasped for straws to save face after CAL announced pulling the 69 planes and it ended up bad for XJT. Except republic is doing it on a bigger scale. I think they see the writing on the wall and know that flying is shifting back to the mainline carriers, just as Richard Anderson has said over and over. Republic is trying to put the cards in their hands instead of leaving them with DAL, UAL, USAIR, AA, CAL etc.
like everyone else has said, the next year should be very interesting.