Tex,
The great fear was that if we allowed the RJ's on the property that they would replace the MD80s with lower paying smaller jets. Well, duh, those jets are being replaced anyway, and now NO AA pilot is flying them. Hell, even Eagle (which some of us could flow down to) isnt flying them either!
You are right, management would love to get us to fly the jets for free. The funny thing is, they still would have lost a few BILLION dollars if we flew the jets for free...
Cheers
Wino