Originally Posted by
Bzzt
Mainline pilots will reap the benefits of increased profits. Regional pilots are outsourced labor, their entire purpose is to be cheap. Regionals will never be a good career and it was never meant to be. Get in, get your time, get out.
Well I think they might have hit a wall when they started introducing 175's and the 900's. What part of either of those planes screams regional? Those planes fly many of the mainline routes.
While I agree that the regionals are cheap labor it has become increasingly a pool of pilots that has dried up. The regionals are about to hit a big snag in the next 5-9 years. Most of us will be at a mainline carrier by then but grab your popcorn it going to be fun to watch.