You have clearly never taken a close look at airline ticket pricing... I have a feeling they'd sell this much in the way that AUS-DFW-EWR is cheaper than DFW-EWR.

I expect the CAL 735 being parked and replaced by the a UAL 320. Any reduction of flying on the CAL sisde will leave then with excess pilots. While the A320 increase will require recall pilots. You are still on two seperate certificates and two seniority list.

You keep on looking at the RJ folks as your demon, management loves that.

RJs (not the people) ARE the demons. Look how many routes have been converted from UAL 737s to RJs over the past 10 years and now (and hopefully finally). UAL used to have 10000+ pilots, now barely 7000. Where did those 3000 jobs go????

This really isn't a big reduction. I think a bunch of 50 seat routes will be chopped and then maybe a couple 737s or 757-200s at worst. Most can be absorbed by decreasing aircraft utilization. This is a pretty minor adjustment as compared to purposely parking 100 UAL 737s for the merger, ahem, I mean due to fuel prices :p

I don't blame the airplane. I blame the folks who originally gave up scope because they didn't want to fly the little airplanes. Once you give up scope, good luck getting it back. I know people are working toward that goal but it's clearly very very difficult to achieve.

Totally agree.