What we have created over the past year is simply the flexibility to respond to the market demand as it emerges.

The network airlines' scope limitations don't just affect the network guys, they affect the Regional partners in ways ordinary people might not understand.

We are very pleased to be joining the Continental team and look forward to an expanding relationship.

We weren't a party to that labor agreement. [American] had a choice: They could breach their labor agreement or breach our deal. We needed to give them a third choice, which was a way to make both parties happy.

I think the Regional role is redefining itself. We are being asked to fly farther with bigger capacity planes and we are being asked to find appropriate financing for those planes. We are being asked to make capital investments. We are emerging as a way to provide value-added service for our partners as opposed to flying small airplanes from point A to point B.

We weren't a party to that labor agreement. [American] had a choice: They could breach their labor agreement or breach our deal. We needed to give them a third choice, which was a way to make both parties happy.