The profession needs to offer an alternative to regional wages. When a pilot is trying to get in to this industry they go where they go because that is really the only option. Give them something better and they will take it.

There are not enough freight or night cargo jobs flying checks. Little Bills in congress have largely gotten rid of that route as technology has taken over. The military option is no longer a direct path as many go fly UAV's on the first or second tour. Regionals are really the most direct path that many have.

Now that upgrade is not a year or two, pilots at the regionals are fighting to make better wages off the bat. The way ALPA is set up, that is up to their MEC's, but the pressure is there. The two year upgrade is gone. There is about a four to five year window of opportunity to change these wages as, in half a decade they will be hiring Captains off the street once again.