What would you define them as? as we are talking about a separation of scope clauses I think there is a large one between horizon and Alaska for example. If you are saying that the large airlines are going to go into the over water and wide body long haul routes only and the regional will take over everything what does that mean for the airlines that fly as majors/legacy(which this site classifies AS as a legacy btw) but only operate narrow body's? would that men AS gets rolled into QX or vice versa? or would that just not happen and there would be a third class. cause if there is a third category you might as well discard the original opinion and just sya that everyone is better off as they are now wiht the scope clauses they have now.

Also 1500/500 is fine and dandy but if people can't afford to purchase their hours to get their and the training market remains the way it is currently you are going to create an industry where only people who have a ton of money at their disposal to buy their time. I know the arguement of go fly night freight or air taxi is going to come up...I suggest you go look at whtat those operators are looking for now as their minimums. almost as high as your 1500/500 wants. They also don't hire first officers.