Your right and then you wrong to. With regard to low balling the airline industry. When JO is gone another airline will attempt to low ball it's competitors in order to make it's share holders happy. There is no such thing as cooperative pay among the regional airlines. It it competition to the max. I read alot of the views on this forum and they are not in touch with reality regarding economics. Alot of people say if MESA would just go away the QOL and pay at the companies they work for would somehow just magically improve. The regoinal's are not set up finacially for this point of view, and never will be. I also see people telling MESA pilots to jump ship, before the bottom drops out. For what? and go where. It's better to stay put and wait, and when the bottom does drop, then go seek other avenues of employment. When and if MESA does fold, the other regionals will not just fill that vaccum left by MESA, they will have to recruit like crazy, and find the jets as well.
I also read the negative comments on how MESA pilots bring the whole industry down, and if they would just quit it would show they are down for the "cause". Not true, the people who foster these thought's are into socialism to the max, and that only works in insect colonies. MESA pilots have there reasons for being where they are, and it was not out of malice towards pilots of other companies. Yet I see nothing but complete loathing directed at MESA pilots, when it should be direct at MESA Management.

Other than what you wrote, your right on the money, and I hope you continue to make heaps of it, and I mean that with sincerity.