This is really the ultimate in a circular argument. It goes like this:

1. Major pilots cave on scope due to fear.
2. Regional pilots line up for these jobs that take flying that used to be at the major.
3. Major stops hiring and even furloughs.
4. Regionals grow fat from flying routes that used to be at major.
5. Regional pilot can't get job at major because major isn't hiring.
6. Regional pilot laments the loss of longevity at major and blames the people of point 1.

I can hardly believe there is a single person that agrees with this without taking stock of the role played by said regional pilot. How great it would have been for managements at the majors to have shot their negotiating wad with their scope concessions, only to have found that nobody was willing to take those jobs. How different things would be if those pilots simply said: "No thanks...I'll wait for management to see this won't fly, and then get my shot at the major." Major pilots would have gotten the pay hikes for everyone on the property at the expense of the scope cave in, but management's shiney new RJ's would have sit idle.

Carl