Originally Posted by
Mason32
No it doesn't. What needs to happen is mainline companies stop giving scope exceptions that allow larger and larger planes at regional pay and work rules. Then when you have done a few years at the regional, with an upgrade, since your Captain will have gone to a mainline carrier that was growing instead of shrinking, you can get your PIC time and then follow him/her to a major. OR you can keep gettign larger and larger planes, replacing the smaller planes, and stay in that right seat forever.
You pick
I think the days of regional pilots moving to the mainline is coming to a end... we will be lucky if 50% of regional pilots make it to the mainline. Regionals are going to control alot of the flying in the United States and that means you have to stop thinking that the mainline job is the end game.
Times are changing... fight for a living wage.
ps. in the next 5+ years don't count on a 2-3 year upgrade