Joe;

As I have stated multiple times, the reason I left EV was not for QOL. I took a real hard look at the business plan, FFD, and the long term viability of 35 more years of that working. It just was not there. I saw maybe five to ten more "good" years of FFD DCIesque flying and then the floor falling out of it.

I have fora long time though that the 70/76 seat market was a great way for the company to keep the true costs of not having a 100 seat jet away from the companies balance sheet. Ergo, it is good to having risk sharing DCI partners for these jets so that when a good 100 seat jet comes around we will just let contracts expire and the DCI lift operators would be holding the bag. I think you will see DAL slowly move towards getting RJ's off their direct balance sheet.

The other beauty of all of it is, the pilots overall compensation goes down, we fight each other, and in the end outsource our jobs. It lets the company win on that front.

Either way, the point was I did not see DCI as a place to hang my hat. Not for me or my family. I was looking long term, not in the next five eight years, but 10 years and beyond. And, yes I had the seniority close to what you had, I was top 300.