It's been done before. PNCL had a brief time where they needed CA's, a company had just displaced some CRJ CA's down to FO, some were furloughed. Like I said, it was brief, and not that many.

In the late 90's, one crappy regional was hiring current/qualified J31 CA's, offering a $10K bonus for a either a 12 or 18 month commitment, can't remember.

Where were they to find said CA's from? Well, the other couple other J31 operators that were ever MORE crappy than the one offering the $10K.