Curious....I'm not the sharpest bowling ball in the toolshed but have a thought. During furlough, I flew as a contractor for a Fortune 100 flight department. This company had previously operated a flight department for over 27 years. When the last merger occured, the decision was made to shut the it down and eventually it was outsourced. When asking the CEO if there was a desire to eventually bring it back in house, he responded "why should I? It doesn't make sense financially to do so." He pointed out that all they had to do was cut a check to the "lift providerer" at the end of the month and everything was provided. Further, by having the department contracted out that they had the ability to decuct the operation from the corporate taxes. Additionally, the liabilty for any incidents was now isolated to the "lift provider". This inabled them to dodge any lawsuits associated with crashes, HR issues, etc. My question is does this apply to the various entities providing the DCI? If so, it would go far to explain the insanity of the RJ explosion.