Originally Posted by gloopy

not exactly. Rj growth of 50 seaters? You would be right. Of course since you are right and that sector is dyig a horrible painful drawn out death, it should be more than reasonable to get in writing what is happening anyway (zero cost item) but we have to focus on it. But this is about the insane onslaught of 70, 76 and in a few cases (usair, airtran soon and even the currently unused ual loop hole) 86 seat jets and of course, bigger ones. Especially common type bigger ones (e190/195) but even next gen bigger rj's are a hard core in our face threat. You can better believe focusing on (outsourced) rj growth is one of the top priorities of our generation.

As for consolidation, the regionals are consolidating as well. And they have management's with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank and massive pilot groups with mec's chomping at the bit to crack that next seat range by any means necessary. You can better believe focusing on (outsourced) rj growth is the top priority. The only issue that may tie it is tightening up the loop holes for fireign and domestic code shares and interlining. But rj scope is a bfd.