Originally Posted by Eric Stratton

Have you not been paying attention. They don't care about you and need you to be whipsawed and lower paid so that they can make more money. Even the head of ALPA eludes or has out right said this. They have a payscale on the crj900 that pays about the same as their md88/90 did just a couple years ago and that is for the right seat, not left seat. Somehow that isn't good enough now. Or they make the argument of who will be the flight attendants or mechanics? They don't ask those questions when it comes to the 717 that they currently don't fly. Why would it be any different?

BTW, Shiny Jet Syndrome isn't exclusive at the regionals. It's alive and well and it's called the 717!