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Even if the majors do hire again (which they certainly will), you will be at your regional for so long, that leaving your $80,000 captain pay at your regional for an FO spot at a major making $40,000 the first year and sitting on reserve and Ready Reserve will be a very hard decision. The quality of life issues, pay issues, and the fact that there are no more pensions to look forward to are things that will keep people at regionals until retirement.
I hear this all the time. "I'll only leave for FedEx or UPS." Good, more seats at majors for me. But I agree with what was said earlier, regionals will keep eroding flying at majors. The today show today was reporting 50 percent of flights in the US are by regionals. Then they said regional pilots are less experienced. So who knows...