Originally Posted by Thunderpig

Supply and demand...doesn't mean what you say it means. Pilots ARE a commodity, but because the market cannot support wages equal to a pilot's potential "worth", it won't. We can cry and whine about it all we want, but when you have a market that demands costs paid by the customer to be low, earnings cannot support what we "think" we are worth. It will be truly interesting to see what the 60 hour max duty week will do to the profit margins of the regionals...more mouths to feed with no change to the overall production of the group. It's the nature of the beast to start making a pauper's wages...even if one were uninformed enough to do the 100k in loans to get to this point.