Major hiring at the minimums
If the LCC/ULCCs started hiring at 1500 what would that mean for regionals and the scope issues?? Wouldn’t this also benefit the LCC/ULCC in that the more regional(cheap) flights the LCC/ULCCs take away in pilot capacity from the legacies regional networks the more market share they can take in those secondary markets. If they began to collude and focus on secondary markets that mainly regional airlines serve.
From an outsider it looks like the only price advantage legacies have is the regionals and if the LCC could find a way to end regionals they would have a major price advantage (scale still being an issue for the LCCs).
Also as an outsider it seems rather counterintutive for pilots to in one hand want scope protections but in the other hand complain when hiring minimums are lowered? This doesn’t make any sense? From looking through these forums it appears most pilots want to see younger pilots go through the regionals because it is what they had to do yet the same pilots complain about scope?