Originally Posted by Aloha

Whacker,
I understand that you are making this argument from an economic standpoint, and although I would like to see RJ pay to go up as well, it is not a necessity in my view. The argument I am making is that we as an industry, need to have a minimum acceptable level of experience to operate a comercial airliner as an airline transport pilot. One needs to hold an Airline Transport Pilot rating to meet that acceptable level of experience in our cockpits. IF pay happens to go up, or down, because of this implementation, so be it.
-Aloha