With recent “regional” accidents and mishaps in the news and publicity regarding hiring practices , Sean Duffy and the public are catching on to the fact that the wholly owned regional model is a scam and always has been. My guess is that with the FAA , Transportation secretary and the public scrutiny that the mainlines can ill afford to start trying to bring down pay rates at the so called WO regionals as the public is already suspect of training practices and experience . The mainlines have still been raking in record billions in profits while paying higher rates to the regionals, which by the way is what the pay should have been to begin with. Covid just forced them to do what should have been done anyway. If anything there would be more pressure put on the mainlines to completely fold in the WO’s and take over the training in particularly if there are anymore accidents, God forbid . The WO regional is sold to the customer as “mainline” . Time to come up with a new take on an old ALPA slogan : “One level of safety equals one level of pay and benefits”. It’s time to put an end to the WO regional scam and fee for departure sham.