Meh...Sonicflyer's attitude is the same as most pilots'. That's why the regionals paid poverty wages to FOs for so long. The only reason pay ever went up, was because the regionals ran out of pilots who could live in their parents' basement or had a military retirement and afford to do that. Most of us love it, and only need it to pay because our kids need to eat. If the economy doesn't make a really rapid come back, you can expect a couple new regionals to start up paying $15/hr and promising upgrades in a year while everyone else is stagnant, and that's where all the new flying will go. Any airlines that want to compete for new flying will have to do the same, and back to the whipsaw.