Of course, then that airline (or individual pilots) could legally raise a DFR issue if they are ALPA.

Additionally, there are many highly experienced pilots flying regional aircraft and any pilot who is willing to be suckered into believing that all are inexperienced or less safe simply by the virtue of the fact they fly regional sized aircraft believes too many poorly reasearched and biased newspaper stories.

Of course, many pilots (especially mainline) prefer to believe this because of the degree of emotion that they have allowed to overtake them.