After reading this article:
A concerned citizen would be furious that the pilots flying their families around have little to no experience. They would go to the internet and search "Regional Airlines in USA." To their surprise, the search yields such a high list of regional airlines. Then they will start checking their previous airline tickets and finds out they recently traveled on one regional, getting even more furious. They write to their Congressmen/women and Senators demanding regionals to show the pilot hours in their tickets. More concerned citizens join in and form a boycott to stop travelling in regional airlines, until more experienced crews are hired. The Regionals complain that experience crews are hard to find. By now, the concerned citizens population grows daily,and they investigate the qualified pilot shortage. Turns out, qualified pilots will not work for the crap wages in the regionals. A few months later, little revenue from the boycott and pressure from the Majors force the regionals to increase the pay substantially inorder to get high time crews and stop the boycott. A bill is also passed to set a minimum pay scale well over the poverty line.
Oh, if only we lived in a perfect world.......