Translation: Low pay and pilot labor inelasticity [willingness to do a job for hobby pay due to a misconstrued perception of future opportunity] allowed two people to be left unsupervised where they had no business being in, the cockpit of a for-hire transport category turbine equipment.

You could just say that and not be cryptic. The dead don't care.

At any rate, the regionals should implode. Sounds logical; they can't raise pay on the flying contracts, not for what they bid them for. I see no problem in that arithmetic. Nobody is owed air service. This is really, in the end, good for the profession.

The only people who would have a problem with this are a glut of dreamers who are going to be left out of the cockpit. Thing is, they were never gonna make major CA anyways. Too many hands chasing too few jobs. It is what it is. I love flying as much as the next guy, but I also know when to fold them. I find that forced outcome to be more economically advantageous for them in the long run. I sure hope someone would have my back and told me when I'm throwing good money after bad. Friends don't let friends become hung-start airline pilots.