Originally Posted by NineGturn

Unfortunately it just doesn't work that way. The unions no longer work for the pilots.



Well of course it would take either every single pilot simply refusing to accept jobs at regionals which will never happen or it will take the unions making a stand and refusing to allow mainline to hire any pilots that ever work for a regional... also something that will never happen.

The best way to get rid of the B scale model for mainline that the regionals have become is to get rid of the enabler which is seniority. Kill the underlying system and you kill the business model.

How to go about doing that? It would take a concerted effort from the regional airline pilots to take control of their own unions back from the mainline and management.