Those days are long gone. The old days of doing a few years at a regional and moving to a major are history. Management loves to continue this myth since it keeps a steady supply of idiots, I mean new pilots, comming through the door. All of them with the same idea of doing a few years and going to a major. Management thrives off of this dream, because the new pilots don't know the reality, and will work for peanuts, and accept miserable working conditions. More importantly, they will accept new concessions as needed, since they will only be here a few years right?.... what they all have lost sight of is that majors are shrinking, not expanding... the only expanding going on is at regionals, getting scope concessions to aquire larger and larger airplanes.... on the same crappy pay scales, with the same crappy QOL issues. There will not be enough new jobs at majors for anything but a trickle of people to go from regional to major... and all the managements know it. They play off your stupid dreams and use you; period. Regional jobs have become career positions.... they have not attained career payscales and benefit programs yet, but the length of time most will spend at one is nothing short of a career.

So, the sooner the pilots begin treating their "regional" job as a career the better things will become.

Look, now we even have major's furloughing their staff and subcontracting almost all of their flying to a regional carrier... (Midwest-RAH) The old days of walking across a picket line are gone... now they just come fly your airplanes, or bring their own to replace your's with, and come and fly your routes.... all subcontracted by your airline of course.

Way to go RAH.... the BIGGEST bar lowering in decades.