Originally Posted by
Paid2fly
You're missing the point, the "Wichita analogy" does not apply. In Wichita they laid off employees because they weren't selling any airplanes. A regional airline with written contracts that have penalties for poor performance and cancellations will not just throw their hands in the air and start parking dozens of aircraft, rather than raise inadequate compensation to attract and retain pilots. Parking the airplanes would cost them, and their precious shareholders far more than any raises for flight crews.
It might or it might not, we do not know what their long term outlook says for them to do. Paying pilots more may sound like a good idea but not be in the long run. As a pilot I hope they decide we need to be paid like lawyers, but we can't be certain of that. We certainly know that for the last several decades we have seen mostly shrinking pilot wages and the supply of active ATPs is not dwindling.