Originally Posted by deadreckoning

If the regionals fail that means more mainline jobs. Who wouldn't want that? It's a win win for mainline pilots and regional pilots.
I don't need to build time (I think 12000 TT is plenty) and I'm not a mainline pilot. I just think Envoy pilots (and express jet and repubic) are fooling themselves if they think regional pilots will ever have leverage when companies like PSA, PDT and Mesa lower the bar, and fellow regional pilots flock there in hopes of quick upgrades. Until pilots refuse to work for such companies the regional industry is doomed.
So Envoy can either join the race to the bottom or fail to exist is what management wants you to believe. So far it looks like management is the one to believe thus far. ALPA has done nothing to prove otherwise.
Until ALPA shows Envoy something credible that holding the line is working, I've got my money on management winning this game.