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Canam, I know the stroke of a pen won't instantly end existing contracts with FFD carriers, but they will be phased out over a few years as this flying is brought back to mainline in 90-120 seat planes, flown by UCAL mainline pilots. The 70 seaters of today at UAL will fade away or go to other legacy "express" carriers until mainline plots at DAL, AA, USAir, learn the hard lesson of scope, that we at UAL have lived for the last decade.
I would
love to see a lot of that flying come back to UAL Pilots, but tell me how that is going to happen. Are they going to give it back out of the goodness of their heart? Are they simply going to agree to make flying those passengers more expensive because they think that UAL Pilots "deserve it?"
I have heard over the past several months that legacy carriers are learning that many high-roller pax are growing weary of the UAX experience and that bringing
some of that flying back to the mainline would be smart. But other than that why would they just automatically shift that flying back to aircraft and crews that are clearly much more expensive to operate?