Originally Posted by gloopy

I agree they were a great group of pilots. My point was to preempt any claim of victory from the poster I was replying to along the lines of "well RAH flies greater than 100 seaters and they are a regional! Ha, so there!" etc.

As for the Indy pilots falling on their swords, I'm not sure that is a 100% fair statement in context. Yes they refused concessions at the end, but it very, very clearly wouldn't have mattered anyway.

And IndyAir didn't fly 100 seats or greater on behalf of any mainline either, so that comparison is as equally irrelevant as pointing to RAH's operation of Frontier and whatever they end up doing with the once respected MidWest brand.

In any case, if mainline pilots at ABC allow twenty 101 seaters to be outsourced, obviously 20 101 seaters will be outsourced. If mainline pilots at XYZ allow one hundred 200 seaters to be outsourced, then one hundred 200 seaters will be outsourced.

I disagree that "100 seaters will be flown at regionals" but in the unlikely event they are, it will happen only to such an extent that a mainline pilot group allows it. Does a single outsourced 100 seater at a single legacy airline mean "100 seaters are being flown at regionals?" Technically yes, but in all actuality no. And I don't think even that will happen anyway. That's the point.