Originally Posted by
Da40Pilot
Is this regional crap/underpaid pilot situation ever going to stop? You all seem so miserable.
Why doesn't a whole company of pilots draw a line at some point and just strike. Don't show up at work, nationwide, until they raise your F/O salary to at least $40k/year.
It's sad to read nothing but complaints about working at regionals from so many people that work at regionals. It's as if you all spent 5-10 years working your asses off everyday to get a right seat and then the whole notion of being a pilot became less desirable than working as a cashier's at McDonalds.
With this new 1500-hour rule and the fact that less people are becoming pilots, or are willing to go the full stretch, it'll just be a matter of time before supply/demand of pilots dictate a salary increase. I know there's always gonna be that kid wanting to fly the bird for free, but as a bigger picture, less and less people will want to work at the regionals and maybe at the point.....someone in management will realize that $20 million bonus might be better off being paid off to the workforce.
Ugh.
A lot of the RAH pilot group have been chomping at the bit to strike. They want it bad. Let's all get real and realize we all want to get paid more. I mean I fly an crj2 right seat now and will gross high 50's and I want more. This should be everyone's mentality and it (for the most part) is.
I'll admit it, I make E170 jokes, but you can't sit there and act like the RAH pilots love their paycheck and go home wagging their tails every week. Deep down, some of them (very few) really feel superior flying the big jet haha, but as a whole they do not.
DA40, what you may not realize is that the NMB controls it all... cant strike until they say so. Don't even get me started on having illegal strikes, because that's just not a very bright thing to do.