If you just sign up for flight benefits and you never planned on getting out of the regionals, you should have researched better. Also, if the dude is going to combine the regionals or not continue the contract, it will take longer than you will be here for the process to complete unless youre a lifer which, I refer you to the second part of my first sentence. So, sit back and embrace the suck.

Three rules for life:
1. Dont believe anything you hear and half of what you see.
2. Expect nothing and you wont be disappointed.
3. Fly airplanes