Originally Posted by
bottlenose
Regional pay needs to be brought to a livable wage for new F/Os, with everyone else getting an increase as well. I think 50 an hour starting would be fair. A 2d Lt in the A/F takes home about 4k a month maybe more depending where they live. And thats 4k+, no experience, just to stock the snack room and go through training.
In order to get that, the regional airline needs to get a bigger pot of money from their major airline partner. Maybe it will in fact come to this if nobody is willing to sit in the seat and fly the airplane for what is being offered.
But if pay gets too big, the regional airline would not have any reason to exist as its sole purpose is to be a B scale for its parent major airline.
That's all a regional airline is, a big fat B scale. I think when you look at like this the solution becomes crystal clear.