It's not so much that foreign airlines will save regional pilots, but that alpa in collusion with airline mgmts have alienated the regional pilot force.

This invasion of low cost international carriers won't be good for our profession, but if alpa doesn't work on its relationship with regional pilots, they will be a force against alpa on this issue.

Alpa can do all the lobbying they want, but that won't prevail against bodies running to those jobs because of the labor situation alpa helped to create.