Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

Regional pilots are starting to stand up in unity against their low wages and pay, but there are already regional airlines that have packed up and scaled down considerably. The regional pilots want mainline to pick up more of the flying, instead of contracting it out to regional airlines. This means smaller/less regionals. The other aspect to think about is that a certain amount of people will buy airline tickets at a certain price, if they can no longer support that price (it goes up), less people can buy tickets, that might mean smaller airlines as well. Eventually many of the redundant and ridiculous Essential Air Service contracts may go away as well.

Are all of these things going to happen? Maybe not. Are they possible? Sure. Have we seen movement in this direction recently? Yes.