Originally Posted by
MatchPoint
Ok so what's your point? Are you justifying why you plan to stay there? You see the regionals are a money losing necessity that's needed to assist in filling the highly profitable mainline ships. Therefore keeping cost down on a losing necessity is a must, that is why the regionals will NEVER be a solid lucrative career.
Regardless I do think they can pay more even with the regionals being positioned as a stepping stone.
I don't plan to stay here. No one should plan to stay at a regional which is why a 12 year pay cap shouldn't matter. You shouldn't be here in 12 years. I use the fact of 130-140 hours of credit to justify that every time someone talk about regional pay they want to say$21,600 a year, guarantee no additional flying, no per diem just guarantee. PSA pilots get paid 75 hours guarantee in training plus 24/7 per diem since that was brought up in a previous post. The fact is there are first year FO's here making mid to high 30's and 6-7 year captains making over 120k per year. Everyone wants to down the PSA contract because we have higher ins rates etc therefore it is in there eyes concessionary when they in fact have no clue what they are talking about. Where we did give some to the company in some areas we took some in others