Our WO's are paying guys in the right seat $60k to start. Compare that to $70k in the 190/AB.

The Dash 8 CAs are making upwards of $130k with their overrides and triple premium pay...that is a 30 seat airplane!!!

They can pay less at mainline on the smaller planes and have ZERO issues with recruiting...in fact I'm kinda surprised the company hasn't approached us to ask for a 76 and below wage of the current RJ rates with a long term non-negotiable rate lock.

After all people are going to Frontier with their $35/hr starting wage. Lots of pre-merger guys came to Airways with the same starting wage.

Labor costs are no longer in play, now it's who pays the most that gets the pilots. Incredible turn of events in just a year.