Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
It hasn’t changed yet so those 76 AND 50 seat aircraft have to be flown by someone, which is going to be a regional for regional pay, even if the pay finally does see a bit of improvement, it won’t be from flying them at mainline.
And when those "someones" (i.e. Regionals) can't get nearly enough pilots to replace the ones leaving for other jobs to show up to class, or their training throughput is limited because they can't keep LCAs around?
Planes don't magically fly themselves.