Originally Posted by sailingfun

Major unions don’t negotiate contracts for regionals nor can they legally do so. The current career track for young pilots is vastly improved from the days when you flight instructed to 1000 hours, then got a job flying solo all night in a piston twin with a load of checks for 10 bucks an hour and finally were able to move to a regional turboprop operator for 18 bucks an hour after you had 3000 total hours and 1000 multi.