Originally Posted by Margaritaville

The difference is that regionals are on the verge of shutting down due to lack of pilots (especially captains) and the legacies all have large pools and are having no problem filling classes. So the airlines are throwing money at the problem at the regionals and the legacy pilots don't have nearly the leverage they think they do especially as the recession sets in. The legacy pilots are overplaying their hand in my opinion. They are comparing apples to oranges. The legacy pilots should be able to achieve inflation +1% but the 400% raises some regional pilots have seen ain't gonna happen and it will be a hard sell to get retro pay for the time the airlines were on government life support. If that's the goal, they will just get themselves parked until next year at the bottom of the recession when they get concessions rammed down their throats.