Originally Posted by
willwestwalk
Who is going to be the first Regional Airline to sign a real contract with real pay now that more than 50% of all domestic flying is not done by the majors anymore? Will the regionals keep comparing each others contract and pay or will one of them man up and demand A LOT more money or else let the airline fold?
Why would they pay any more money when classes are full every time they advertise for pilots? They should pay less.
What's to "man up"? Give away money? No, they're not going to do that. Airlines aren't going to fold because they paid the pilots too little.
Pilots get paid too little because they accept too little. There are too many pilots. While that may not be the case at some point in the future, as soon as there was any shortage of cheap pilots, they could double the pay (that won't happen) and it would still be cheap to hire $35,000/yr pilots instead of $17,500/yr.
You'd have guys frothing at the mouth to get out of their C172 CFI job (after the 1500 hours, of course) to sign up.
I'm moving this to the hangar talk forum.
Tony