Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
I absolutely DO NOT believe we will see meaningful wage increases for regional pilots. From an airline's perspective, it would amount to a permanent fix to a temporary problem. It would be much more difficult for them to turn around a few years down the road and ask for concessions in pay, than to just say... Pay out bonuses now. I think we will continue to see big bonuses dangled in our faces to sign contracts. We will not see pay raises.
I have to agree.
The way I see it though...this is an opportunity to use temporary leverage to kill the system. Regional pilots need to take back control of your unions from management and from the mainline.
The seniority system and low starting pay is a tool management uses to keep pilots in the "every man for himself" mode. Unions are supposed to be tools to organize labor in the best interest of labor...right now regional pilots' unions are organized to further the best interests of management with a massive B scale for mainline pilots flying mainline planes on mainline routes under mainline branding.
Take control of your unions!!!!