Yep, but ANY way you slice it, that FO pay rate is pathetic, plain and simple.

We can defend them on a lot of issues, and yes, I was around when that contract was negotiated and know full well the ins and outs.

And YES, we can can go over the reasoning behind how an FO pay rate at a "regional" airline is negotiated. blah blah blah and FO won't be in that seat long.....blah blah blah you can't waste negotiating capitol on FO pay rates......blah blah blah scope protection, blah blah blah.

Some of that's valid, some of that is TOTAL CRAP. There is absolutely NO excuse why an FO should be making that LITTLE to operate and aircraft that size. Especially relative to what OTHER contemporaries were paying their 50 seat FO's, let alone more than 50 seats.