Originally Posted by baseball

If there were a shortage of accountants then companies that require the services of accountants would pay more and/or do something to make the career appear more attractive.

Regional carriers caused the problem of poor wages, work rules, and have lowered the career expectations and long term earning potential of pilots, therefore, screw the regional managements. They cry about no pilots, so what....

It is supply and demand, and as we are reminded on occasion, the best piece of safety equipment an airline or an airliner can have is a well trained and experienced pilot.

My main concern long term is that majors won't have access to well trained and experienced pilots. What we don't want to see is major airline pilots learning the business with somewhere around 2000 hours and 1500 of that in GA aircraft.