Poor bargaining (aka riding the whipsaw) on the part of many regionals is the reason CA rates are so low. If there were a RALPA (instead of ALPA), we could help rise above the BS and someone could actually make decent money as a FFD CA.

Legacy XJT has been suffering, for example, not because they are too expensive. The problem is that other regionals had (temporarily) become too cheap. So where does the flying go?

As long as the regional pilots maintain and us-vs-them mentality toward fellow regional pilots, the corporations win and the whipsaw continues...