Originally Posted by
Rnav
Yes Handhold I did read the entire thread. You can get your panties in a bunch all you want, but If you think the CEO's aren't going to farm out more flying to the regionals you don't know basic econ101. Reality is the aircraft being flown at the regional level has been getting larger and the pay has not increased to meet that trend.
Seriously are you a recruiter for the regionals or a CEO at the airlines? Your right the retirement numbers are factual. But there is no way any of us can know where the job placements will be. But the trend is the regionals are growing. There is being optimistic and then there is being realistic. Your optimism is nice, but as I mentioned its no where based on reality of the last few decades of aviation.
My wish is for the jobs to stay at mainline. No where did i advocate the growth of regionals. Obviously you didnt read the entire thread....because i explicitly stated that i am looking at all of this from the viewpoint of a regional guy wanting to move up.
Quite frankly i believe that with the slim margins on 50-seaters and the upcoming 1500 hour legislation.....many regionals will fold into chapter 7.