Thanks for your response.

You're right, we do come in here to blow off steam and I've been doing a lot of that lately. But I do have a solution...

My solution is to get people to see their world from a different perspective. To understand that pay has been dropping in our industry steadily and at all levels...especially at the top end. Everyone complains about the pay of regional pilots and especially regional FOs but I'm trying to point out that the real problem is across the board including the high end. Just look at what a 747 captain made thirty years ago compared with today.

My solution is to shout from the roof until people begin to notice. The reason I'm in the regional forums is because this must start now at the regionals and regional pilots and regional airlines are most likely to act first to fix this.

Stop backing the seniority system, stop backing ALPA if this is what they are pushing. Dump the union if we must (pay won't get any lower).

I find it ironic that a communist country like China will pay a contracted regional captain a quarter million dollars a year to fly an RJ using an open and free market system while an airline in a "free" country like the USA isn't even allowed to hire that pilot as a captain at any price and if they did the unions would demand that pilot start as a new co pilot earning $20K even if they can't fill the seats fast enough. Something there is really messed up.

My solution is all out rebellion. I'm really too far along in my career and maybe I don't have the power to change it on my own but maybe enough people begin to realize and act things will begin to change.

Maybe we need lawyers, maybe a class action discrimination lawsuit. There are ways to make change but it requires a consensus and understanding of what the problem really is.

That's my solution...pass it along.