Unfortunately, and I hate to say this, but you are right. The root cause of this mess is the scope clause that allowed it. There will always be pilots at the bottom of the chain willing to fly anything with jets for little money no matter who it hurts....always. WE at the majors curse these pilots for what they are doing, but the reality is WE would have done the same thing as a young pilot eager to break into the industry. To call these guys scabs is not only incorrect by definition of the word but also an insult to the thousands of pilots that came up through the same route you now criticize. How quickly some of you forget what YOU did to earn your wings. How much did YOU make before you got to the majors? The point of my little rant is this....

Those of us at the majors must use this travesty as a guiding light for our next contracts. Most of us are in the process of negotiations or will be very soon. We must, at this level, put a stop to this once and for all. If we have rock solid scope language at the majors level there will not be the opportunity for the regionals to come in with these "regional jets" and take our flying. It is OUR responsibility to prevent it, and when we do not, the blame rests ONLY on us for allowing it.