Is that right? Did they slap you on the back from the JS and say we need real pilots to fly this route. Yep, un huh, we jus gonna let dem PSA boys keep tugging on themselves, while you and Earl here show em how its really done.

If you have dealt with the FAA have as long as you claim to have you would know that they are the biggest CYAs ever.
PSA mgmt is up to their eyeballs now in projects, like ipads, constant rate descents from non-precisions and LPV approaches. Acknowledging that a company is task saturated in projects and allowing your other company to continue on, is not telling them to pi ss up a rope.
Regarding the FAA, their chief concern is and always will be paper work. Manuals, procedures, training documentation, checking the boxes, if you will.