AMR could create a whole new company (American Vulture?), move all their RJ flying to Vulture and shutdown Eagle
Hehe that's a good one. But you bring up a very good point in that the regionals in the US just whipsaw their flying. However, the type of contract hiring that the OP is talking about is more along the lines of Ryanair, where a large percentage of employees have to create their own LLC and be contracted through an agency. Imagine trying to get away with that at a mainline carrier in the US.