Originally Posted by
andry754
I know that you're point plays an important role in deciding the salary of a pilot, but its not good business for regionals to have no one flying their aircraft either. this can be fixed with a decent salary. Im not saying that they have to pay us a minimum of 100k a year, just make it an even 60k atleast. Our training is sometimes that much and more...
They're not out of applicants yet (at least not SKW), so why bother? Actually I think some regionals are paying bonuses to the tune of $60K, if you're willing to sign your life away.
Also...the whole point of regional subcontractors is to keep costs down. If you have to pay mainline wages to regional pilots, then the regionals will cease to exist. The majors want to keep the regionals around because the pilot retirement bubble won't last forever...they'll band-aid it as long as they can, ie bonuses instead of permanent payscale changes.