Originally Posted by
BlaineFaban
What you are confusing is the career overexpectation of regional pilot with the reasonable expectation. It isn't going to happen. Your expectations out of this accident, aka increased costs, will simply make your contracts with legacy carriers untenable, and promote the subsequent shift of flying back to the majors. This in turn will cause you to attempt blame shift once again to your union--since it can't possibly be your fault.
The time value of money is what is not considered...$200 an hr at 55 years old is no where near as much as $100 an hour at 30 years old. They need to bring the salary scale back down to earth, we all do the same job, why is there such gaps in pay. This career is a dead end because only the ones lucky enough to have proper timing and age on their side, ever become really successful.