Yes Handhold I did read the entire thread. You can get your panties in a bunch all you want, but If you think the CEO's aren't going to farm out more flying to the regionals you don't know basic econ101. Reality is the aircraft being flown at the regional level has been getting larger and the pay has not increased to meet that trend.

Seriously are you a recruiter for the regionals or a CEO at the airlines? Your right the retirement numbers are factual. But there is no way any of us can know where the job placements will be. But the trend is the regionals are growing. There is being optimistic and then there is being realistic. Your optimism is nice, but as I mentioned its no where based on reality of the last few decades of aviation.