The LoCo are very efficient businesses working to a different business plan than more established carriers. They will replace aircraft when it is most economic to do so. Is there a problem with that, that a business should use its assets in the most effective manner possible?
If a regulator has decreed that a pilot should fly no more than 900 hours/year, why should an operator not try to utilise all of those 900 hours? Either the operator is unreasonable, or the limit is unreasonable. I wonder which it is?
Slightly off topic, there seem to be 2 different points of view being expressed here. On the one side we have thise who are watching T&C being eroded by LoCos, and on the other side seems to be those who have known nothing different, for whom the FR or EZ way is the norm, not the new idea. I remember thinking everything my dad said was rubbish, until I got older.....