The more I think about that magic pay increase that everyone of a certain generation ("ME") seems to await the more I see that there are other reasons besides entitlement that cause this expectational delusion. The majority of pilots employed by a regional airline that have been at that airline for 6 or more years are either on captains pay or didn't fall victim of the "attack of the student loan companies". During this attack you weren't cool unless you financed all of your tuition at a really overly expensive university with less than one percent girls. You were required to take out at least 200K because all the cool kids were doing it.

The industry went through a time where most of those kids were given the opportunity to become a real life pilot just like they always wanted. But now that the honeymoon is over and those vicious loan companies need to pay bonuses to their big execs it's apparent that making those payments is a little tough. Yeah yeah...............we all know hind sight is 20/20.

So some of that hoping for a little more cash to keep the lenders off everyone's back has a lot to do with a generation that is pretty much screwed. I just saw that they are slapping more limits on executive pay again. So if they can set limits to their pay, why can't they limit a pilots pay? That's a lower limit that I speak of.