Originally Posted by
seafeye
What i do know is that Regional Airlines Costs are going to go way up. There are plenty of people in their 30's, early 40's who have given up on going to a Major Airline. Because of many reasons. Age 65, 911 etc..
If you are making 100k plus at a regional and have a family it would be really difficult to take a 50% pay cut and loss of seniority.
Can you imagine pilots having spent 30plus years at a regional?
The pain. Age 65 screwed a lot of people.
Maybe...there are still legions of 300 hour pilots at riddle and other places who will cheerfully undercut a working professional...and the regional model allows for quick and easy transfer of flying away from pilots who ask for too much compensation (say anything over 19K and 8 days off).
Hopefully new pilot certification rules and wary lenders will pull down the pool of cheap entry-level pilots over the long run.