A very good post, except for that one line... You fly a 19 seat airplane for what they offer to pay you to do it, not for what it should pay.

The responsibilities of being PIC in a transport category aircraft, even a B1900, are worth more than what they, and some others, offer.

Other than that it is a great way to build PIC time to go someplace else, and that is what their management is counting on. People willing to do it for little or nothing to gain PIC time to go someplace else...

In the old days, not too long ago, we all did it when we were CFI's... we'd go ride right seat, many times for no pay at all, in the King Air, or Baron or whaever to gain the extra flight time to get that wondeful first regional job.... and since there was, at the time, a never ending supply of eager people willing to do it for next to nothing, the job paid nothing. It hasn't changed much, and neither have we.