Welcome to the whipsaw, a common tactic US legacy airlines used for over 20 years to keep their regional partners cheap. It was literally this tactic that had regional pilots living on government assistance because they were paid so little.
A strategy which resulted in the bankruptcy of most regional airlines, new laws passed for minimum experience levels for RPT and a subsequent pilot shortage, with airlines forced to import foreign labour and put passengers on buses. But don’t worry I’m sure those in management who arranged all that still got their bonus.