Their contract was signed after nearly every other current CBA out there with the exception of perhaps Comair and ASA many of the current contracts at other regionals were gutted after 9/11 and the bankruptcies a few years ago. Compare to RAH, Skywest, Comair, ASA, Horizon and others on block rate alone and they're lower. Then throw in the stuff that isn't here, like insurance, 401k matching, etc. In that respect they're identical to TSA and lower than many carriers.

Any airline negotiating right now (including TSA) has an awfully hard time increasing their compensation. Thus making it harder for any of us to make what we truely should.

As far as their 3000 hour requirement, that isn't hard to change. Hulas had no problem ponying up on insurance deductables for reduced mins when TSA needed captains. EP walked into my class with the memo and it was still warm from the copier.

BURflyer, maybe you should ask your captains how they felt about being stuck in the right seat, displaced and furloughed while GJ was hiring. Oh wait, it's happening again.