Originally Posted by
CaptainNameless
The majors are rolling in BILLIONS $$$ IN PROFITS. There is plenty of money available if they want to use it. If not, fine. Then there will be no new pilots. Done. If they really want pilots to staff the regionals, they will need to pay a lot more in the future because the majors (by the very creation and expansion of the regionals) killed the dream of actually getting a job at the majors someday... THEY DID THIS. THIS IS THEIR MESS. Reallocation of payroll is no solution, you're speaking as if that is a fixed number. Tell the majors to either bring a lot more money in to get pilots on property, or give them something other than lip-service and false dreams and promises of a mainline job... someday... when they get around to being able to give you one, after all their buddies and CP friends and kids and interns have been accommodated.
Kill the dream and guess what? Well, we're seeing what! No more dumb, hopeful, someday-I'm-gonna-fly-a-widebody-to-Europe kids showing up to learn to fly anymore. Well, they killed the dream, it's DEAD, and this is what it looks like. No new pilots is what it looks like. They made the regionals a stagnant, hard to escape career mud-pit. They can live with the consequences.
I hope they don't touch regional FO pay by a penny. I hope every regional is dead or part of mainline just for pilot supply in 10 years or less. That's the new dream.
Graf, you have to be management. Only management would think to solve the problem your way.
Thank you for saving me time by explaining that.
You get it, and most non management actual pilot flight crews do. We have taken it in the shorts long enough, and now it has finally come to a point where the worst regionals are canceling flights, and even grounding entire fleets of aircraft due to lack of staffing. If the major airlines that need/want the feed would like to continue getting it, they will need to come to the plate with MORE money. They are making BILLIONS in profits, and don't need to line their pockets by getting us to keep working for poverty wage! Period, end of the story!!!