Originally Posted by FaceBiter (Post 1673212)

What about PSA?

Originally Posted by FaceBiter (Post 1673212)

What about PSA?

Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed (Post 1673224)

It's more like a symbiotic gut bacterium.

A tumor kills the organism within which it develops; a symbiote assists its host in a mutually beneficial relationship, ehancing the chances of survival for both partners.

Regionals provide frequency and cheap feed for major carriers. Unless you can pull of a regulatory hail-mary and require all flying done under a specific brand to be operated by the same certificate holder who markets and tickets the flight, regionals will continue to be the sharecropping peasants on your lordly fiefdom, yielding revenue for the King/shareholders at court.

Originally Posted by FaceBiter (Post 1673229)

There will always be regionals willing to do it cheaper, and people that can't get hired anywhere else willing to do the flying. Nothing will change.

Originally Posted by pilotgolfer (Post 1673161)

That growth is a tumor.

Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed (Post 1673230)

...and people leaving "better" regionals like Envoy and XJet/ASA for Mesa because they see the way the wind is blowing.

Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed (Post 1673228)

On that "regionals are tumors" theme:

"The PSA test measures the blood level of PSA, a protein that is produced by the prostate gland. The higher a man’s PSA level, the more likely it is that he has prostate cancer. However, there are additional reasons for having an elevated PSA level, and some men who have prostate cancer do not have elevated PSA."

Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test - National Cancer Institute