Another view could be, regional wages should never have been what they have been over the years. RJ pay should be about 70% of NB rates at mainline. Regional pay has been insanely low for far too long. Just because they get $215 doesn’t mean legacy carriers need to get 450-500. Using the 70% ballpark, 215/.7 = 307. I guess I’m not understanding that just because the pay was 129 at QX and 266 at AS, and now that QX is 215, our pay needs to be linear like that and be 450/hr. Or we could recognize that RJ pay has always been historically low, they should have never been worse than 65-70% of mainline rates. And perhaps this is a move to fix that? Because by doing linear math and saying we should get 450-500/hr, you’re essentially saying you want Horizon to make half what you make. I understand the seat argument, but I don’t buy that for the regional industry. One, these jets should never have been outsourced. Delta already has payrates in their mainline contract for CRJ900s. Two, now that they are at regionals, their pay should never have been worse than 60-70% of mainline NB rates. IMHO - and it obviously isn’t with a lot - I don’t want to see regionals get left behind at 50% or less of mainline rates again.

Mainline - X
Regional - 65-70% within X

Just my 2 cents. I’d be okay with QX at 215 and AS at 320 at DOS. But y’all do y’all’s