Originally Posted by eaglefly

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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.