The scope thing is a non-issue. Frontier will get its contract taken apart by the bankruptcy judge. In the end, airline management finds a way around scope one way or another. My point is that we can blame pilots for all this but in the end its the managers of the airlines that steer the course and we're, for the most part, just along for the ride.

The only way pilots will be paid well is if the economics of the airlines change. Whether on its own (global economics, customer tastes) or through legislation (abolish RLA, pilot minimum wage, etc). Unions have some power over this, like Continental, but for the most part if management has the incentive they'll find a way. Just ask any CAL pilot how their scope worked with the Q400s.