Originally Posted by TurbineTime

Sorry, but I don't see it your way. As long as the regionals exist, mainline can shuffle flying from one to the next, and older less efficient aircraft are being retired; people will move from one place to the other. I can see people from commutair, Mesa, ExpressJet, Gojet just to name a few moving to a higher paying job. The money will bring people from others as well, those who have bills to pay and to whom that $9000 you seem to brush off means economic stability. It will happen.