So far I have seen some good responses but none in support of my original question... How are you making this industry better? Please, chime in. Here's another. If all it takes to become an airline pilot is 250 hours, then you can go fly 900's for Pinnacle, why should we make more? No College, No real investment except the money for the ratings? I hope you guys are happy maxing out at $60,000 for a "Super RJ" captain cause that's the way things are going. If you don't have the foresight to see what you are doing by taking a job at Mesa or TSA, or Gojets you don't deserve to be in this industry. I have got to give some credit to the Pinnacle guys for toughing it out for the new contract.

Some of you guys make it sound like to get some experience and really learn how to fly an airplane you should do it with 90 people sitting behind you. After that you can then move on to a quality regional, meanwhile that "quality regional" was competing with your poverty wages. It's really not that hard to pass a sim ride these days, I have read a lot of posts saying if you can pass the ride it must mean that you're competent... I would disagree.

How we try and solve this problem... as someone mentioned, captains at these regionals need to step up and do something about it. I'm just happy that when I do upgrade at Skywest after a year and a half I won't have some fresh out of high school kid that can't have a beer sitting next to me with 250 hours.

I hope you guys that have made the decision to go to these airlines at 250 really do leave after the SJS wears off and go somewhere else mentioned in the first post.