I love how Alaska Airgroup used to say when they first decided to go all Q400 that it could do any route a jet could without the customers caring. Now that the Horizon pilots have signed a new contract agreeing to 2 pay arbitrations in the next 5 years suddenly the Q400 just can't do these routes, customers wouldn't be happy, they need to use jets to do it. Horizon's jets actually that they are selling to Skywest. Alaska Airgroup threatened to bring in another regional carrier because Horizon was too expensive, then when the pilots agreed to pay arbitrations they did it anyway. You can tell management's lying because they're mouths are moving.