Originally Posted by CaptainNameless

Those are large RJs you're referring to, not 50 seaters. At $89.31/hr I make $1.78 per seat at XJT flying 50 seat ERJs. Does that mean I am 20% overpaid compared to a Delta captain? Or is the Delta captain underpaid? The math gets better with more seats. That was my point.

Most of the regional model has been built on whipsaw and either churning companies out of business or keeping pilot groups junior, so majority of pilots are at (or rehired at) low longevity continuously. This model has gone off the rails recently, so that's why the pay per seat is so messed up if you look at a company like XJT. No one was ever supposed to be a 14 year RJ pilot.

They can't easily churn 7000 to 10000 pilots, so the strategy has been to seek long term concessions. They are trying to fix their broken model by essentially getting the pilots to churn ourselves to lesser contracts without them having to actually rip their operations apart and rebuild them to do this. This is what has failed with all of these TAs/AIP rejections. The churn model is dead.