Does no one see that by Republic buying these airlines they are saving thousands of jobs by keeping them from going out of business? If they disappeared, everyone would be complaining about how their management failed them or how other airlines drove them out of business. It will be up to the pilots to come together and make a new CBA with an acceptable level of pay. I can see Republic losing some 'regional' flying, but it'd be turned into 'code shares' instead. Heck, the Midwest purchase already has the Delta code share in it and Mokulele has code shares with Alaska and West Jet. Time will tell........