Originally Posted by
DrangonStar45
...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...
And once the regionals lose their cost advantage over the majors, the majors take back a large portion of the flying. The regional airline industry shrinks to a very small portion of its former size, where regional aircraft once made up more than 50% of total departures in the USA. Thousands of regional airline pilots are no longer needed as the airplanes they once flew are parked in the desert. Frequent flights in regional aircraft between major air hubs and the outstations are scaled back, some markets may lose air service altogether.
Beware the law of unintended consequences...