Originally Posted by 404yxl

The passengers are already paying enough. The 3 majors will make $10-$15 billion in profit annually. They will need to funnel that money to the regional pilot's salaries if they want them to maintain that staffing. If they don't then the regionals will continue to have staffing issues.


If the contractor can't staff your flying, are you just going to deal with the cancelled flights? No, you take them over ala Pinnacle, or you pay them more money so they can pay their pilots more, so they can staff their flying.



Again, if they decide not to pay Republic more money, then Republic won't be able to staff their flying and someone else will. Problem is, no other regional can staff that flying now, unless they make more money.