Originally Posted by
word302
Until you can comprehend that some people do not choose a regional based on upgrade time, you will never understand. You guys have one of the worst contracts in the industry. Your 76 seat rates are significantly less than several operator's 50 seat rates. I'm not bashing you, I want you to be better compensated. I want all regional pilots to be better compensated. You don't understand that your contract is hurting the industry. By undercutting everyone else, we lose the ability to negotiate.
Your right, if someone's goal is to be a regional lifer, by all means, go to Skywest, that's what your saying right?
Now for the rest of us who plan on being at mainline before 2020....Then going to a regional during a huge growth spurt, is smart, it worked for me and my friends here.
People love to use the word "undercutting."
But in actuality no one knows what one regional gets per lift compared to another.
What is fact is Skywest DID UNDERCUT Mesa for the PHX flying.
(It is operated as a lost by Skywest INC.)