The whole thing is hopeless, unless you can get every regional pilot, at every airline that is making crap pay to stop flying and demand more pay (unrealistic goal). Then you'd have to prevent all those fresh com/instrument students from offering to fill those slots. I highly doubt there will ever be a huge pilot shortage. Most the airlines I talk to are still getting stacks of resumes. Southwest gets like qualified 10000 applications for 100 slots. Even if the other airlines only get 1/4th as many applicants that is still 2500 applicants for 100 slots, I just don't see it happning.