I don't want to see them here. I think it sucks that they are. So to that I thank the Midwest guys for having the weakest contract and unity around. My hopes of going to mainline are diminishing all around me simply because a group "lived in the now" a little too much and didn't have the motivation to strike. I'm upset to no end by them being here. Upset at the Midex guys for letting it happen. There was one place to stop this and that was it. Now my only hope is we go balls to the wall on payscales reflecting both CA's and FO's with this one and either make it nice or us to bad enough where it doesn't become feasible to keep them. That's the last and only play we have left now that they've been dumped on our table. JBLU rates or bust at a minimum. A crack in the damn this is. Hopefully other MAINLINE pilots will write their companies how they don't like doing business with someone that's directly competing with them. The 190 is considered a mainline aircraft by DOT since it can fit 100 seats. I work here and yea it'd suck for us losing the midex, dal, or US Air flying but it'd still be the right thing to do to keep these out of a regional. With DAL and others wanting to cut flying I'm sure a stern warning from them to RAH would put things back in order.

With all the talk in the media about regional pay/experience I can't think of a better time to talk to your local congressman or media about how your jobs are being directly replaced by lower paying and less experienced pilots.

If this isn't a lesson on how important scope is I dunno what is.