There are still barriers to better operations on the labor front as well. Union leaders need to decide once and for all how to address the split between mainline and regional flying all the while securing/maintaining some form of scope protection their members expect. A good start would be to stop the charade that this is a 76-seat issue. The mainline does not want that flying because they will not accept the rates necessary to do the flying. Once again, labor did much to create the problem, now it is time that they figure out how best to fix it.