Originally Posted by
Farmlover
It's not a boo hoo party for me. 15,000 regional pilots make horrible wages. How is this system not broken? yet no one cares or does anything to help us out. suddenly alpa cares about nai? What about it's own pilots who make way less than what these foreign guys pay. its sad how far down the river the pilots in this country have been sold. Open your eyes and look what happened right here its way worse than little ole nai or any other foreign carrier.
Yes, and we all bit on this with the promise of higher paying jobs that never came. Now that there is a realization amongst regional pilots that this career flying 76 seats for 19 seat prop wages is a sham, we have to do something about it. The answer is not to spite everyone else and destroy your country's transportation infrastructure. The attitude is "well, if I can't have it, no one can have it." If you want to go to a foreign carrier and makes less than your major airlines brethren while competing against them on the same routes, are you really truly any better than a regional jet pilot? There are how many 10s of thousands of RJ pilots? If every single one of them went to NAI, do you think they'd be hiring at 170k/70k anymore? I have no problem with foreign carriers. If they operate within the same system that we do and pay fair and competitive wages, then I'm all for you leaving your family and home to go there. Just don't claim it's for the best of the industry or the free market when you take a job at a fraction of what it should be when all you're doing is getting it for yourself.