ALPA's what?!

On a bright note... there was some hope for the pilot career a while back - majors offered money, work rules, retirement, etc.

Nowadays... you have to ask yourself - why spend so much money to become a pilot only to make poverty level wages and almost never be able to repay your loan?

This whole media frenzy about regional airline pilots should be exploited BY INDIVIDUAL regional pilots (since ALPA is impotent and incompetent) to not just educate the public about the plight, but educate prospective future students who just don't know what they're getting into, while this is in the spotlight.

As long as there's a perception of a big payoff later on, you'll have people lining up for the job. No payoff at the end... might as well point them elsewhere to make more money and buy a CE-210 or something to buzz around on weekends for fun.