While I'm sure some would like a crap storm to devastate Delta, that ain't gonna happen. At some point in their history, every mainline has had a subcontractor regional crash an airplane and kill people. In the end, there was relatively little blowback.

And how it it ALPA's fault for a business decision by management? For the last several years, regional pilots have been yelling about mainline scope sales and take the flying back. Well, what we are seeing is the inevitable outcome of that finally happening. The first to go will be the better paid, regionals who can't compete economically with the bottom feeders. Then, while there might be a temporary boost to the BFs, they will eventually not be able to handle the flying, and with less ability to whipsaw will be under more pressure to perform. When they cannot meet performance goals, artificial or not, the legacies will finally shut the whole mess down.

This is the result of scope take backs. Expect to see more pain in the regional set if UCAL and AA are able to rein in their scope. That is what everyone wanted right?