That's what they said with the J4J guys. Why fly them for $40+ish as an FO when they could go J4J with them to a regional and make double that as a CA? This is just talk I've heard from some of those guys.
CAL and DAL/NWA's scope is great but once one person puts something on the market the others have to follow to keep the price wars fair. How do you guys think we got to the 70+ seat jets in the first place? It wasn't because a regional bought them then went to the mainline. Mainlines went to the regionals.