Originally Posted by overqualified52

The problem is that the Legacy carriers are up against the wall with scope .. and plus all the retirements coming , so the mainline unions will be the ones who are going to set the course .. something has to give ..either flying is going to shift more mainline and hopefully the pilots with it , or flying will shift with more scope relief toward the ,quote, “regionals” , that just simply don’t exist anymore .. they may exist in the minds of mainline union and Management to try to stick us with less pay and no profit sharing in order to do the same thing that any domestic ,quote , “mainline “ , airplane is doing , but regionals are a dead horse 🐴. Regionals were 80’s and 90’s decades and what it was when I was hired in 94’ flying props around on flight segments less than 300 miles and our flying overlapped mainline by 10 percent .. now we fly jets that were once flown by the majors in the 80’s and 90’s and 90percent of our flying overlaps mainline and a lot of our flying is well over 800 mile flight segments...It’s the same thing .. when a , quote, “mainline “, driver on a 108 seat regional B717 is pulling in 230 bucks an hour and a quote, “regional” driver of a 76 jet who is doing the exact same thing for a hundred bucks an hour less and no profit sharing and is completely owned and created by the legacy , there is something drastically out of whack ...hopefully the unions will wake up . Between scope and retirement, something is going to give soon , but which way it blows , nobody knows ..