+1. I could not agree more. You can't have the "seamless Delta quality service" experience for passengers unless all DAL flights are flown by pilots on the DAL seniority list wearing DAL uniforms and serviced by DAL FAs. I believe, DAL wants to break away from the traditional mold of running the legacy carrier by being innovative, and this move will free them to add any aircraft size they feel is appropriate without having to fight the Union. It's clear DAL wants to get rid of 50 seat RJs. 76 seat RJs are temporary solutions to a long term problem that needs to be addresses right now.

As the bottom list at XJ and Comair are being trimmed down and all administrative functions for XJ, CZ and Comair have already been moved to MSP, it would be fairly straight forward to centralize all three W/O regional operations, and then staple the pilot list to the bottom of the DAL list, but what do I know, I am just a line pilot.