What we need is all regionals become part of the mainline carrier.
There is no reason why Jeff Skiles isn't mentoring new pilots at the regional level. He would actually get a pay raise if he went to one of the wholly owned and got to keep his seniority.
Then we would have high time experienced pilots coaching new regional pilots. Then when a regional F/O gets 5 year etc.... they can bid for the larger airplanes at mainline. Stay an F/O for 10 years plus then move to Captain on a regional jet. Then finally Captain at mainline.
It would solve the regional safety issue of having green captains with very green F/O's.
If you look at the pay rates most Mainline F/O's would get a pay raise if they went to their regionals and sat Captain.

If congress was truly set on improving safety then they would use the experienced pilots at the regional level.