In an ideal world, that's how it would work. But I'm not so sure you FULLY understand that. You are aware of such things as the RLA, etc?

But getting past that, the concept ISN'T that dissimilar than when the legacies were in BK and trying to tell the pilots that they should "sack up and stop voting in concessionary contracts" would go. Here's how;

The legacy pilots could have done that. THEN management takes it to the BK judge, and more than likely it DOESN'T go in the pilot's favor.

At the regional level, they turn a crappy contract down, the scenarios are different depending on the circumstances. If they're wholly owned and under a sham BK, well, it's not that hard to see what will happen. If they're not wholly owned, they turn it down. Management says "OK", lets tell our mainline partners that we're no longer "cost competitive", see how that works out.

IOW, there's a THRID PARTY entity that's ACTUALLY the puppet master.

Sorry, but the concept of the regional provider TELLING the legacy how much the feed is going cost, as well as coming back and telling the legacy it's going to cost MORE just isn't the way this train wreck of an industry operates. And asking ALPA national to support such a notion would be viewed as ludicrous at best. Moak (the joke) has ALREADY deemed it so.