Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

What is your point? That regional pilots have to make poverty wages in order for them to exist? No pilot should subsidize paying passengers and if the model requires a pilot to qualify for public assistance in order for the airline to exist, then that airline has a flawed business model that no financial institution should touch with a ten foot pole.

I am 200% convinced that the regionals could have been paying livable wages for decades. They chose not to because they weren't forced to. Besides, the population mindset has changed. People want premium product - they don't want the cheapest hence the push for premium products; and the youth would rather be YouTube influencers than pilots these days.