Originally Posted by
Excargodog
In which event that major INSTANTLY becomes less competitive for new hires itself because if that would-be new hire had wanted to fly a regional aircraft at less than 737/320 rates, they could have done that by staying at a regional where they already had established seniority. Not saying that some major utterly dependent upon regional feed might not try it, but I think everybody farming their regional field duties out to Republic and Skywest and having them pay their Captains and LCAs whatever it takes to retain them is a more likely eventual outcome.
I think you may be wildly underselling the benefit of having a seniority number at a major. The rates will obviously be better than they would be at the regionals, and the stress of having to be at a regional wondering if/when you'd make it to a major would be gone.
I don't know that AA flying the 190 really hurt their hiring.