Calling many of these places cities is a stretch and I know many of them no longer have air service. Most of those towns' passengers are driving an hour or two to a bigger airport. Citing the loss of these destinations to make your case that it cost mainline jobs is more than a stretch.

Decades ago some predicted that when labor costs in the regional industry "matured", seat-mile costs for small jets would preclude service to many of the smaller populations that were once served by 19-30 seat turboprops. Scope clauses are not negatively impacting mainline pilot jobs, and your comments parallel many of the misguided arguments that were used to weaken scope in the mid 90s and post 9/11. Those that fail to learn from history...