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You may want to take a look at the United Pilot Agreement before making the above assumption. First year pay on any fleet is just under $90/hour and you get the 16% B/C, 401K, etc. that the UPA provides. No regional I know of offers that. Second year you're over $100/hour and it goes up from there. One thing you can't put a dollar amount on is job security which is something no regional has right now compared to a major.
And do you think that united will pay the same for a 76 seat jet as a 737 or 320? (They won’t) No doubt flying a RJ at United will be way better than flying at a regional, the sad thing is that it will go to new hires for years, and all the new hires will have already spent years at a regional. It will be the initial change over that sucks.