Not necessarily.

I see this scenario happening. QX gets rid of the RJs. They go all Q400s. The jet pay scale disappears because there are no jets.

They find someone who is willing to fly Ejets for them.

Then, they sell Alaska Airlines out of the Air Group (SWA, CAL, AA or someone will buy it). Bill and the Boys get big bonuses that are specified in the annual report. They then buy some Ejets for QX, cancel the outsource and get a new jet rate set by an arbitrator.

They then rebuild the system using QX Q400s and Ejets.