Originally Posted by
Ziggy
RHINO I don't see how making pay, benefits, and QOL better at the regionals inhibits your chances to the legacies. If pilots who have attained these things at the regionals wish to stay, That's one less pilot to compete with.
Unfortunately you can't put the ****** back in the horse. You can only look ahead with the lessons you've learned from the past.
BECAUSE...If you keep making life at the regionals better, what is YOUR incentive to move on??? If the regionals keep getting better contracts with better pay, benefits, bigger airplanes, you get the picture, IT BRINGS DOWN THE PROFESSION AS A WHOLE. You're willingness to fly an RJ900, as an example, from JFK to TPA, as a regional guy for regional pay, brings down the industry a couple of notches. A flight of that length and from a market such as that should only be flown by a mainline aircraft and crew.
Eventually, you become ANOTHER major carrier because WE'VE allowed you to do it for less. There's already too much capacity out there and we don't need to keep increasing it further.
It's already coming to fruition. Look at the drawdown of the regionals with the 50 seaters going away. Now we must draw the line and not allow scope to get away again. It's time we man-up and start taking it back to the mainlines!
Again, the regionals should be viewed BY ALL as a stepping stone, not a career position that one strives to attain!