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STILL GROUNDED
Here we go again, "3rd year captain, 2nd year FO pay rates". Please tell me how a RAH crew at 66/31 is any worse then say a PSA crew at 62/30
And for the love of god would some one please justify the fact that a 76 seat Emb is any more mainline than a crj/700/900. Besides that if they are mainline airplane the mainline pilots should of fought to keep them! Frankly I would have rather seen that right along with 50 seaters. Dash 8/200's / Saab 320's or smaller for the regional carriers. Hell bring the shorts back! Someone screwed this business up long before you or I got here so lighten up with the personal slams.
All of the ones you cited are mainline airplanes. Even the mightly AA used to fly Folker's.... and if you go back far enough, they flew DC-3's. ALL of these planes are mainline airplanes... the companies have you FOOLED into thinking they are not... so they get a steady stream of fools to steal peoples jobs. Did they offer them to mainlines? in many cases, yes they did... it is just mainlines refused to fly them for the wages regional fools accepted.... now we have our first example of where the majors said this would lead. Elimination of good mainline jobs to be replaced by crap regional pilot pay jobs. Our worst enemy is ourselves. All the newer pilots suffereing from shiny jet syndrome have allowed managements to do this to our profession. It will continue until the workforce says screw it, screw the union, screw the company, screw the RLA, and they all take a walk.