The wages for regionals were not minimum wage. The wages were sub-poverty.

The wages will not regress to former times.

The wages will also not keep up with inflation and escalating costs of living, until again incentives are required.

The incentives that garnished the wage increases among the regionals are fading and will soon be gone.

There will be less movement, more stagnation. Incentives to negotiate new contracts, better contracts, and improvements in contracts wash away with the leverage of the pilot market as the post-covid bubble wanes. Here we are.

Expect more to stay longer with their regionals, increasing in seniority.

There won't be a return to 250 hour copilots. Or 12/hr copilots.

As the industry grinds slowly forward, lacking incentive to keep up, the regionals will drag their feet, as they always have, so rather than regress, don't expect significant fugure gains. What's good now, won't be tomorrow. It's far better than it once was, and it wont' go back, but don't look for it to move forward at the industry pace, either.