Originally Posted by Xray678

In my humble opinion, and I say this as a pilot at a major, the blame lies entirely with the pilots at major airline who continually vote to allow more outsourcing of their jobs. Not only are they sending airplanes like an E-175 or CRJ-900 out to be flown by regional pilots, but they take away the ability of the regional pilots to negotiate higher wages by not specifying who will get that flying. The Delta pilots for example, allow 76 seat jets to be outsourced, but no mention is made as to who will fly these jets. If our contract specified all 76 seat jets have to be flown by CMR (or ASA, or SKYW, whoever) then those pilots would be able to use that exclusivity to achieve higher wages. And in the end, higher wages anywhere helps all pilots.