We don't deserve better.
If anything we get paid too much. Management keeps bending us over and we just keep taking it. We have no backbone and they know it. We blame the RLA and other airlines undercutting us. We have every excuse but when it comes down to it...it's our own fault. It takes us 6 years to negotiate a crap contract and it takes the airline a few months to tear it up with a BS bankruptcy, threats or promises of bigger airplanes. Stop blaming management and each other and blame yourselves.
Legacy FO's make 5 times what a regional FO makes. Leagacy CA's make 3 or 4 times what regional CA's make. They deserve it. Not because they're better pilots but because we're too pathetic to do anything about it.
I hope Xjet takes the concessions and eventually Eagle too. Might as well. Why should they lose flying while Pinnacle and PSA will probably gain more flying because they sold out.
What a race to the bottom.
Man up, Unite, take it back.
Now to wait for 20 posts with no productive ideas, criticism and excuses about how there's nothing we can do.