My point to my statements are simple. Scope is not industry wide at 76 seats. Contractors have, are, and will in the future, operate more seats. There's very little beyond tepid determination that it won't happen.

SkyWest still flies a few pro rata routes in their system, for sure with Delta, and I'm not sure about UAL any more. They operate as a code share with AirTran. Republic is a whole 'nother can of worms.

The biggest three players going forward will be CAL/UAL, DAL, and SKW. I suspect when 77-125 seat planes are proposed, that CAL will be quite imaginative with proposals to the union about how many new A350's/B787 they can get pilots into. I can tell you from first hand experience on the SKW side that they have actively planned for 100+ seat planes.

History has proven this formula effective. Not today, maybe not tomorrow, but in the future.

100-125 seats in 10-20 years.
150 seats in 20-30 years.

Single pilot ops in 30-40 years.