Originally Posted by
Flying Taco
One glaring error. Regionals flying half of the flights for the majors does not equal half of all the passengers flying on a regional aircraft. Regionals are smaller seating capacity (remember you heard it here first). (i.e. A 50 or 76 seat plane does not carry as many passengers as a 150 +/- seat plane.)
Also, very few FO today are starting at $19K per year. A few years ago that was the case. Further, a lot more regional pilots are getting hired by the majors. These sound like data of a few years ago. Things are changing rapidly.
Otherwise, an interesting read.