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Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
The regionals will never pay any money. That is why it's important to keep as many aircraft at mainline as possible. We need the regionals to shrink back down to the stepping stones they used to be. Unfortunately, there are way more pilots than there are jobs so our pay will keep going downhill. If you are a regional captain right now, your buying power is probably the highest it will be in your entire career.
True about "buying power". But as long as the regionals DON'T pay any more money and maintain a increasingly stronger financial incentive to increase their flying, then mainline carriers (and their pilots) will suffer more.
The more expensive regional operators are, the less flying is likely to be shifted to them from mainline. It's an unfortunately inverse relationship that appears is becoming stronger.
Regional pilots are between a rock and a hard place because of it. If they agree to these weaker contracts, they're likely to improve their regional growth, stability and their own advancement within. The problem is that by doing that, they limit their liklyhood of ever making it to a major as the majors shrink to move flying over to regionals for greater profit.
The ultimate aviation Catch-22.