Majors would never purchase a regional for its pilots. It's best to let them fail, close the doors, etc. Majors have been taking over more domestic routes and it will continue. Regionals are slowly going away and will end up being 175's and small. I believe more regionals will shutdown and that is a good thing (more mainline jobs) The economics just aren't there anymore for regionals. The point of regionals was to have cheaper labor, outsourcing 20+ years ago and now times have changed, it makes no sense anymore to have regionals. Regionals will shrink and majors will grow to takeover more and more of the domestic flying. There will always be interview programs such as Aviate and now of course the ULCC's are hiring regional FO's and thats an immediate pay raise right there. Get that A320 type and move on to a legacy or just hangout and be comfy in the right seat of a bus making more as 2nd FO than you did as a regional CA. But, no major will be buying regionals for pilots. Every regional pilot today will have no problem getting hired at a major in the very near future unless you have DUI's, police record, 5 checkride failures.