Originally Posted by
HighFlight
Regional pilots will never achieve what mainline pilots have until regional pilots win the struggle to become mainline pilots. Mainline pilots will not give of what they have so that you can have better. It's not a defeatist attitude, it's reality.
Correct. The regionals exist only to reduce costs. If regional pilots were in a position to demand and get mainline wages, the regional airlines would go away and the flying would be brought in-house.
But not all regional flying can be done economically for mainline wages, some of it (specifically 50-seaters) would just go away in that case.