Originally Posted by
The Chow
I'm not sure which one is worse, the sense of entitlement or the lack of respect I see in generation Y.
There is plenty of both....from all generations, young and old and everyone in between.
Don't paint us all with the same broad brush simply because of our birth year.
A regional airline
is an entry-level job...but that doesn't mean we can't (or shouldn't) desire higher wages and workrules. That is especially true when you consider that a 70/90 seat jet is
not an entry-level aircraft, despite it having become one at the small jet providers as it has replaced former mainline aircraft like the F28/100, DC-9, 732/727, etc. As such, its only reasonable to demand higher than "entry-level" wages to fly such aircraft.
The 50 seat RJ has supplanted the Beech 1900 or J32 as the "starter turbine" for many airline pilots, myself included. That said, it doesn't mean we should continue to accept whoring ourselves out to fly increasingly larger aircraft for increasingly smaller compensation.