Oh for the love of buddah...those rates were in their contract all the way back in 2003. When the E175 was announced in 2006 to go into service in 2007, RAH pilots had already figured Bedford would find a way to get E190s on property and pay them at the 79-99 seat rate.

I'm gonna say it again, in capital letters this time for those who choose to selectively remember the history of regional airline collective bargaining back in mid-2003 in order to fit their own pre-conceived notions:

THE 79-99 SEAT CAPTAIN RATES IN THE CHQ 2003 CONTRACT ARE ~2.5% HIGHER THAN THE B146 RATE IN THE ARW 2003 CONTRACT BEYOND THE THIRD YEAR OF LONGEVITY.

And this is despite sacrificing a lot of negotiating captial to secure seniority list scope and kill the threat of a non-union Republic Airlines being spooled up to take away Chautauqua's then-existing E145 flying. And yes, everybody knows the FO rate sucks...that is very old news.

True, the ARW 2003 contract rates were concessionary and its concessionary work rules are superior to the CHQ 2003 CBA...but CHQ beating those rates was and is a commendable feat, given Mesa's abortion of a contract which was ratified just a few months earlier and the previously mentioned scope fight which was endangering their jobs.

In 2003, nobody gave ARW pilots guff for flying 100 seat airplanes for those rates at a time when American was still flying the sub-100 seat F100 and NWA the DC9-15 for substantially higher payrates.

Six years later, what makes RAH pilots *****s for flying the 190 at their higher contractual payrates when ARW pilots were not?