Originally Posted by exwaterski

Actually it's quiet simple and it doesn't involve national seniority list or other pie in the sky ideas. If you get the various MEC's to agree on some realistic target pay rates for regional aircraft sort of like the NBAA does for business aircraft. There needs to be better coordination and communication between groups this is key. First we need to recognize we are all competitors so the goal here is not to hold hands and sing it is to level out the playing field so pilot compensation is not the difference between winning and losing contracts. Sure some will be better than others but there needs to be some kind of benchmark for what a 76 seat jet should pay. Many will say "yeah but then they'll just start up a new regional blah blah..." Well if the regional equivalent of Skybus comes along you single them out and strongly encourage pilots not to seek employment there. This is not a hopeless Endeavor (see what I did there) just look at the effect the teamsters have had on Republic's ability to recruit pilots even though they won't admit it and that's only one union. Now imagine an inter-regional trade group of 15,000+ pilots stongly encouraging all their friends not to accept employment at XYZ regional. Management likes to target the top tier airlines in compensation (Comair, etc.) so we need to counter by targeting the bottom tier. This is not a pipe dream if there was ever a moment in history when this could work it is now. As long as the mission is clear and simple. Perhaps we could flesh out this idea some more and put it on kickstarter? I don't work for a regional but I would gladly donate $$$ if someone picked up the ball and ran with it. But again we are talking about an industry trade group not a union.