Otto:

"No, the real problem is marketing runs the airline day to day, week to week, month to month, and year to year."

Actually the "real" problem is many pilots think they run the airline. I fly airplanes for hire.

Marketing plans where the best routes (yes they have a lot of failures and probably more failures than successes) and attempts to get ticket prices which will make money.

RJs are just another airplane flown by pilots. Scope is an emotional issue and rightly so. You at CAL have been largely isolated from the issue because of the former size of the airline really didn't prompt MGT to use RJs, but now things have changed.

In the long run the only issue is who flys, how much they get paid and what kind of life will pilots who fly airplanes, small to big, enjoy.

An RJ is not the devil. The devil is in the details of who flys them.