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Hmmm, rather than major airline companies winning the RJ issue and trying to destroy ALPA, I would say that ALPA has, through their unreasonable salary demands over the years, done itself in, so to speak.
Airline companies will only pay so much for labor, and if the labor costs become unrealistic, as they have, then outsourcing is the only alternative.
Take for example, the Delco division of General Motors. When Delco employees demanded more, GM sold the company to its employees, which accepted lower pay, and have become an independant supplier of GM parts.
Regionals have become that independant supplier of seats on the shorter routes...soon (now) to become longer sectors.
The seeds of discontent were sown a long time ago.
ALPA has ONLY itself to blame.
