Hate to say it but first in response to a previous remark made on this thread NO compass will NOT raise QOL on the RJ level.... If you look at the TA postings most of the Compass pay scale is about $5/hr to fly 90 seaters that what 9E is paying us to fly 50's. Second lets not forget what happened to those poor MDA boys. Mainliners who thought they were getting a good deal flying the 170's are now sitting at the absolute bottom of the CHQ (regional seniority list). So possibility one (god help us all if this were to happen) compass forms gets sold out to another regional and they are all on the bottom of a seniority list such as 9E or CHQ's... Or possibility number two in time bigger and bigger A/C go to compass and eventually as far fetched as it may seem you have B744's and A330's being flown at an almost RJ payscale.... So you tell me is Compass really going to help the industry? Think about it. On a side note the TA is NOT radified yet. To me this means that management is jumping the gun a bit if I were a mainliner I'd be PI$$ED and ready to burn the house down. Also I think that a simultaneous NWA and Delta strike might be a good thing considering the message it would send when a little over one third of this country's air service suddenly shuts down then maybe everyone will get the clue and start taking airline labor as a whole seriously.