Originally Posted by
outaluckagain
No kidding!! There is nothing that is ever going to happen that will cause airlines to come to that level.
They may of course stop hiring the regional guys to keep them there as long as they can. Maybe start a major airline MPL program to get around depleting their regional staffing.
I don't think that will happen either. They need regional pilots, and unless something changes, they won't have any. They need to make being a regional pilot more attractive. Unless the pay rates increase dramatically, prospective pilots will continue to pick IT and Environmental courses of study and make 5x as much as a career starting in the regionals. Things have to change, the current model is unsustainable. I see majors stapling regional seniority lists to the bottom of their own before I see excluding regional pilots from their hiring pool.