I don't think management wants to put more seats in the current RJ fleet. The existing 76 seat "limit" was I believe, at the time, a "oh please mister pilots, don't throw us into the briar patch" negotiating. Of course they wanted more and bigger. They always want more and bigger. But all along they knew that the CRJ705/900/etc and EMB175 were the "next" step up and they had to get that first, and they wanted them with 76 seats all along, which is why the so called "limit" was set there to begin with. The only planes they even can increase the seat count on are the larger EMB and CRJ's currently outsourced anyway. But the only way to do that is to reduce first class. They are so bat poop crazy about first class on RJ's they are actually reducing seat count willingly (and braging about it) on the CRJ700 anyway. If they want more seats (and we can bet they do) they will want us to agree to outsource EMB190/195, C series, etc. IOW bigger planes. The fact that the next immediate step of outsourcing just so happens to be common type with what is already allowed and well established puts enormous pressure on us to "hold the line", which usually means move the line and call it a victory because we didn't move it as much as they wanted.