I just get sick of reading that SkyWest is the downfall of the industry. I am happy at SkyWest and I don't need to be the highest paid in the industry to be happy. Yes, our pilots who voted for the pay raise not only sold out the Bro pilots, but the industry as well. It would have been nice to vote it down and try to negotiate a better offer, but that obivously didn't happen. It is funny to read how people on here think that because XJT gets a raise or if Mesa gets a better contract, that that has any effect of what happens at other regionals. This isn't pre-9/11 where it is a race to the top, it is fight and struggle to get what we get. Our pay could be better at SkyWest, but management played the pilots like pawns and the pilots who voted yes took the bait. Sad to say, but it I was impressed at how management picked the perfect number to get just enough votes. I think it was voted 54% yes and 46% no. Management knows this pilot group too well.

I don't know what a mainline route is? Someone made a comment about regionals flying mainline routes and we should get paid for doing that. I was just making the point that SkyWest isn't the only one out there doing it. But since you ask, a mainline route in my opinion is one that requires an airplane with enough seating capacity to fulfill the passengers for that given segment. Is that 76 seats and above? I don't know, apparently not as we speak. American used to fly F100's with a 108 seating capacity I think, maybe 100 or so is the cutoff? Does anyone know what the E190 at USAirways will be flown at? Also, anyone noticed their regional level pay scale? I don't hear anyone complaining about that. And, why didn't ALPA raise the bar on that pay scale? RAH has a higher pay scale for the same airplane.