Originally Posted by
TheDashRocks
There are solutions that work for everyone. The regional and mainline pilot groups must be more closely linked together. Joint labor agreements could increase furlough and scope protection for mainline pilots while establishing clear career progression, work rule improvement, and pay increases for regional pilots.
I hear this all the time, but no one has ever shown me the alchemy of how it will work - the career progression at the regional involves taking it out of the growth of the mainline unless you define career progression as moving up to the mainline. Most of the younger dudes want that, however the senior pilots controlling the regional MEC's are lifers and want that growth and career progression in the form of more and larger airplanes at their regional.
The pie is only so big and can only be sliced up so many ways.