Originally Posted by CaptainNameless

This is spot on. For the most part, I think he is an idiot, but there was an eye-opening report published a few months ago by Boyd, the guy who projects the direction of the airline business landscape. If you read his stuff, he makes a very good case that it is going to become far more expensive for majors to run things under the current Major/Regional system because the cost savings are nowhere near as much as they were for the past 20 years. For example, from the perspective of a SCUMBAG AIRLINE MANAGER, would it be cheaper to pay regional carriers who have a growing cancer of 10-15 year employees or to bring those routes back to mainline, re-hire the now unemployed regional pilots as new hires, and have them fly the same routes they were flying before but with a big pay cut and 2-3 weeks less vacation than they have now?

So, SCUMBAG MANAGEMENT is pulling this ruse to get everyone to believe they really want to continue the current set-up as is. What really is going on is the SCUMBAG MANAGEMENT is looking for a lesser JCBA in order to "surrender" something to mainline pilots that they already intend to surrender anyway. They want every mainline pilot to pay a price to head the industry in a direction that they (SCUMBAG MANAGEMENT) already know makes sense for industry to head.

Almost makes your head spin what a mind-**** this actually is.