Originally Posted by
MoosePileit
IF UPS wants to start flying RJs w/ cargo doors (think BAE 146s in Europe....) That's fine. Pay me the same to fly them. Don't subcontract them or buy the little company that flies them if/when it violates Scope. Don't make any mistakes the legacy airlines made. Any way you spell it, it's a loaded question so I give you a loaded reply.
They won't use UPS pilots to fly that size aircraft, they will subcontract the same way they do with the feeders in ONT, SAT, EWR, etc..
The mistake the majors made was trying to get the small airplane pay to the large airplane pay disregarding the revenue production.
This started when the DC-9 grew from the -10 to the -50 and the pilots wanted the same pay .
You have a differential pay structure to allow the smaller airplane to remain in the fleet so that a pilot has the opportunity to get on the ladder, the group has an array of choices. The expansion of the Commuter(now called regional) was a response to costs