Nowhere did "liveable wage" get mentioned.

The original post said, "Raise the pay of new-hire regional pilots to $60k a year, and have regional captains start at $100k a year".

I replied asking which company's business plan would support that....and so far nobody has had an answer. Lots of pilots seem to think they know that airlines can apparently afford to pay a lot more, yet don't know/care about the other financial workings from the business end.

I offered, as an example, the much-loved United 2000 contract, which many analysts have in retrospect acknowledged was not a financially sustainable contract and which the company was essentially bulled into accepting (successful negotiations, eh!).

I'm not passing judgment either way...I just have a hunch (don't have any specific proof beyond looking at some basic financials I learned about while getting an MBA, and was asking for it from someone who hopefully knew more about it than me) that the starting wages offered above are in the ballpark for being sustainable under the current regional business plans.