Originally Posted by
chazbird
While there is a point that a regional pilot now is an entry level job, perhaps more so than in 80's, but when regional pay is, for the most part, less now than what it was in the 80's it isn't a matter of it being an entry level job. What the market decides and such similar statements isn't like it is some force in the universe like gravity, a great deal of the wage problem is designed by people who have their aims and tend outsmart the the other people (IE ALPA, ET AL) who allegedly are looking out for the pilots.
And (I ask nicely) what might be of a regional pilots (or other pilots) entitlement? When it is said that a regional RJ FO making 40k and their spouse makes another 20K at Taco Bell, what exactly does that mean, RJ = Taco Bell? Maybe it does, but it shouldn't.
You guys are missing the vital connection here. IF you want the RJ F/O to be considered NOT an entry level position, then will have to get NON entry level pilots to fill it and you will essentially lock out the CFIs who have traditionally filled the RJ F/O position.
You can't have it both ways. But that's entitlement for you, thinking you can have it both ways.