Originally Posted by
maxjet
I agree with this 100% You are already seeing evidence of this in the bonuses being paid at regionals now. Pay will be next but it will take a very long time. If you have been at a regional for the past 10 years, not by choice but because of the lack of movement then you have the right to ***** a little. If you haven't, then suck it up and get a second job just like the rest of us have had to do for years. IT IS A REGIONAL! You are not supposed to have any money. They are giving you a ticket to the big show! If you don't like it, vote with your feet and GTFO! Nothing worse than having to live in a crash pad that smells like AS*, making no money, working every weekend, and a stagnated market. You finally get to fly the plane, the part we all love, and some jackwagon wants to ***** all day about the company and how little they are paying them. Give me a break! Do you think this is a new development? You knew or should have known the rules when you signed up. Stop ruining my fun with your bullcrap while at work. Now if you only complain on these boards and not on the flight deck, or in the crew room, or at the crash pad, then please accept my apology because I feel that venting on the boards is therapeutic. The rest of the places mentioned are just like a hemorrhoid to me. Some of you just suck with all of your whining!
Most of these people HAVE been stuck at regionals year after year, my personal friends have been stuck around 8-10 years or so. The system doesn't work like it used to, what you are referring to, because regionals fly mainline routes and are far numerous than they use to be. We got CRJs flying across the country from SAT to SFO. You think that they are "giving you a ticket to the big show", but it doesn't work like that anymore. They ARE the show and with the competition out there from the numerous regional pilots and mergers, there's little chance to do anything else.
And most of these people did not know any better, they thought they'd move along in 2 years or so. There weren't all these websites with pilot pay all over the place, and even when there are, it's hard to know exactly where to go and what to check when you are not connected with the industry and pilots. I notice lots of pilots like to play a double-standard, not informing young people about the realities, but then blaming them when they start complaining about the realities. It's like "you should 'do the research'", but we are going to "hide it from you" and then make you sound like an idiot when you start complaining.