Nobody is planning on getting rid of any regional right away...it will take several years just to settle the terms of the SLI, then a few more for implementation. Five years is not long in the grand scheme of things...if they need to ax XJT, they will have time to do it.

Actually they might have deliberately entered into that contract to use it as a scope placeholder against labor..."but we just signed a contract with them, we cannot afford to buy them out of it this early"