Nobody is happy about recent developments with the American feed. But I just got here, and most regional pilots are also new enough that they had nothing to do with how the regional system developed and then went bad. Regionals were never, ever meant to be a career. You can thank Osama bin Laden, you can thank Wall Street and people who bought houses they couldn't afford, you can thank legacy pilots for trading scope, and you can thank Congress for extending retirement (although I think that was reasonable). But it's really silly to blame a guy who just got here for a problem decades in the making. I'm sorry for wanting to maximize my earnings potential and putting myself in the best position to reach a major. Should I have gone to ExpressJet? Envoy? AWAC? Sat right seat for a decade, then gotten furloughed and started over somewhere else with a quick upgrade anyway to make up for lost time like half the guys in my class?