Part of me thinks that once CAL & UAL merge, there will be another 1,000 furloughed pilots available for RJ employment. Maybe ALPA will be so nice as to get us preferential hiring, just like they did at CAL (pref hiring at Colgan to fly our outsourced routes). Maybe we'll flood the market with experienced pilots and finally shut down all those pilot factories! The pilot shortage is just around the corner... if only CAL and UAL wouldn't have merged it would be here by now.

OK, sarcasm machine turned off... for now!