All kidding aside though... This development is a large threat to the betterment of our industry as a whole... A threat which many seem to be blinded to by SJS or apathetic towards due to short term gain.
Best case scenario (and least likely) is that we get some new aircraft the same size as those currently being operated here.
Next best is that this is nothing more than propaganda to get people to come here.
Thirdly, these talks amount to nothing more than a "by the way, we are doing this... We already have the pay rates in place, consider this discussion a courtesy"
Finally (and unfortunately most likely) these talks eventually result in a revised (not in our favor) pay scale, which the pilot group will trip over themselves to approve in order to get the new jets on property.
If Alaska Air Group manages to place larger aircraft at their regionals, you can bet that the other majors will be using that new "industry standard" in their next round of negotiations.