I'll give you an honest answer to your question. Yes, fee for departure regional carriers are the devil. WE screwed up relaxing our scope to allow them to have grown like they have. As a result, we have relinquished that flying for mainline seniority list pilots...for what? We cannot even prebook a jumpseat to/from work on the airplanes carrying our code.

I do not in any way demonize the pilots doing that flying though. I do have a problem with the RJDC and the sense that that is "their" flying. I wish Compass was still represented by our MEC and that Compass and Mesaba were still owned by our corporation. I do fault our MEC for being complicit in letting those two entities be sold...making the scope recapture goal/hope/pipedream more difficult/impossible.