I would agree with Carl if their own MEC was the one that forced the mainline to give up the flying. The reality is that these regional MEC's are not fighting mainline DALPA or DAL management for more flying. The regional management is fighting among each other for that flying and the pilots of those regionals may decide to "help" their management obtain flying, but they are not going to DAL management and taking your flying.

Mainline PWA's allow flying to be outsourced, no place else. DALPA has exclusivity to bargain with DAL management and no one else.

Carl, you want to argue that pilots should just not work in aviation for these wages, and that is a great idea, but the laws of economics and human nature are working against you. The world changed in the regional world after the USAir, UAL, NWA, and DAL scope sales in the early part of last decade. Prior to that the regionals were generally a three year spring board to a mainline job. Stagnation has occurred because to many jets and jobs were outsourced for many reasons, some legit and some not. Bring back the flying and restart the natural progression that has been absent and this issue as all of us sees it goes away. We are at a great point in history to do just that. Laws, and economics are on our side.