yeah........but at the same time it is not an issue of money at the regional level.

Most regionals have expanded their operation using tons of money in late years.

RAH has so much cash they are now even buying Frontier.

Skywest has almost 700 million cash in the bank but these companies claim they cannot pay the junior pilots higher salaries.

The money for higher salaries is already there.

It is the Regionals defending that they want to compete by being the cheapest operator (but making tons of money like RAH & SKYW) that claims they cannot pay more in salaries. BS!
If they make tons of money and are not willing to pay fair salaries to junior pilots then the goverment has to put a stop to it.

Pilot are forced to take these slavery jobs if the want to continue their career as that is for most the only way of getting the jet PIC needed to be able to move on. The regionals knows it and abuse it.