Originally Posted by
Mason32
I'll repeat it again for you slow types.
The mainline carriers don't care about the training costs at the regionals given the choice they'd rather cause training cycles at a competitors wholly owned than at their own. In the middle if a pilot shortage, they're happy to keep the $100k senior CA at the regional rather than continually upgrading with nobody coming behind them.
The above is true especially when those $100K senior captains compensation is slated to be indexed to the average of the lowest paid carriers out there and that's BEFORE they are whipsawed against other regionals. Within 2-3 years, top scale for 76-seats at an AE carrier will be about $85/hour and with PBS, you'll only be paid for what you fly. Bust your butt and fly the Maximum 1000 hours/year and make $85,000. Many will fly 700-800 for substantially less. Dollar for dollar 401(k) match is better then most industries and that will almost certainly get trimmed as well.
It's just the future reality.