You must not be familiar with what 5+ years in the right seat at a regional involves... I don't know many people that can "stomach" it, they're all just doing it because it's the state of the industry. Obviously when the majors start hiring, FO's will be leaving as fast as they can because they will be the ones most demoralized by the regional industry. Especially those that have actually maxed out the FO pay scale. The structure of regional pay is what it is because there aren't supposed to be involuntary 5+ year FO's.