Originally Posted by GlobeTreker

I am surprised regionals don't start pay for training again. If I owned a regional I would make both captains and FO's pay for a job. I bet I could get at least 20k from FO's and maybe 10 or 15k from captains. I guarantee would have a stack of resumes on my desk the first day. "Gotta pay those dues right"? "Build that turbine PIC. It will open doors"?

There are few less business savvy professionals out there than airline pilots. How many other professionals pay between 40k and 100k for training and then work for less than peep show janitor wages for years on end? And so many of you have been totally duped by the unions. Particularly the regional guys. ALPA is run by a bunch of bottom feeding political hacks that charge you 2% of your salary to blow smoke up your posterior. The only leverage regional pilots have in negotiations for pay would be to deprive airlines of their services by quitting and going someplace better. Unions have saw to it that it would be foolish to do so. Good job ALPO. Unless your company sells their own tickets you are always going to be at the mercy of the next bottom feeder out there.

Yes I am a fool. I used to belive this could be a lucrative profession. While I do love the flying I hate about everything else about this business. I learned my lesson and am working on my exit strategy at the moment. For those of you that think you have made it in this business, you are only fooling yourselves. If you were to get furloughed tomorrow or your airline were to go T.U. where do you think you will go and how little will you be payed?