Originally Posted by sflpilot

It's more than just increasing pay. Realistically in order to fix the problem the regionals need to be done away with and all the flying goes back to mainline. Delta already has a CRJ payscale. You would get the hours for the ATP and then start at AA, DL, UA, SWA, UPS, FedEx for the best candidates and the others would start at JB, NK, F9 etc. Under that system I don't think there would be a shortage of people wanting to enter the career.