Wow you need to be promoted straight to upper management at the nearest airline.

The difference in fuel prices at Delta from the last peak to this summer was 5 billion dollars a year.

And it would be approximately the same from the trough.

Not only that, but many of those seats don't "feed" anything, so its only a fraction of the 20%, if that.

Like I said, there's still a role for them, but I think all outsourced RJ flying should continue to shrink.

You're incorrectly assuming that the cost of fuel is a fixed price. That is like saying, "historically, the price of milk is above average." You can't look at the average over the last 100 years because the data has increased as the years have progressed. If you analyze the data appropriately, you need to find the rate of change of fuel over the given data and find where the fuel SHOULD be based on the data and where it is. Given the data, fuel should be in the high $2. The only way to negate that positive trend would be to start the data set at the 2008 peak.

Because its jobs outsourced to the lowest bidder that are used to not only whipsaw against the mainline but against other regionals. Its an evil vicious model whose time has come to pass. The current trend of collapsing regionals coupled with growing narrow body mainline is awesome. All signs point to it continuing.

LOL yeah OK.

Never said anything about $%^&ing off pilots. Its our scope for our code and we control it. By not allowing them to add more cancerous large RJ's we're cutting off the last viable hope that sector has of continuing to consume the profession at DL and other airlines will likely hold the line as well. If you're at a regional, then that "airline" has a code too. Your union is free to negotiate as strong a scope clause over that code as you want to. Have at it. Meanwhile the regional sector continues to wither, as it should.

Because the water is cold....