Originally Posted by
C5Pilot
New UAL will own/control leases on 60% the jets being flown by its regionals. If this did happen it would be bad for RJ lifer's! Personally I would take 2nd year pay at Delta/SWA/UAL over 7 RJ Capt pay any day. Next few years are going to be interesting for the regionals with all the mergers etc. There will be 3/4 majors left and maybe 3/4 super regionals all with large pilot groups that should be able to flex some muscle.
Mainline management could do it if they wanted to, nobody is arguing that, but they don't want to. They love having regionals around...UA Alpa is going to have the mother of all battles on their hands if they seriously intend to reel in scope. I suspect they compromise and that their real goal is to prevent any further scope erosion and maybe reel in the 70 seaters.