Originally Posted by CBreezy

I agree that, with large RJs, pilots should get paid more. The only effective way to do that is if the majors take over their regional feed. Unfortunately, the economics will not allow this. If we got pay and benefits commensurate with the majors, it would be in their best interest to do it themselves as it would defeat the purpose of subcontracted labor. You need only look at American/AE to see that we are nowhere near getting the benefits we deserve (the bankruptcy court encouraged American to "diversify" their regional feed to remain competitive--or, in other words, seek out a lowest bidder contract)

The ONLY true way to do this would be at the mainline level. As subcontracted labor, we have no rights. We will always work in the grey area between black and red as we compete against each other to provide "lowest bidder" services. Legacy pilots complain all the time that we took their flying but their greed allowed the lawyers and penny-pinchers to allow RJs to proliferate outside of their contract protections. The mainline pilots needs to negotiate significant changes in their contract to reduce the amount of RJs flying. Until that happens, we can whine and complain until we are blue in the face. It won't change anything.