Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Remember, every underpaid RJ drivers subsidizes the higher wages of a mainline pilot. Even if mainline pilots were to agree to fly all the RJ's at current regional rates everyone knows that would not last past the next contract. There's only so much of the pie to go around, and the senior mainline folks would have to give something up to acquire RJ scope.
Uh, no, I respectfully disagree. Mgmt would have you believe this as they lower the ticket price to "capture" the new lower cost of labor. There is no pie you speak of, that is just mgmt trying to plot one group against another.
Nothing should be given up on the mainline side. I am not ashamed to be paid what I believe EVERY pilot is worth. Its already not worth what it was 5 years ago, which is a shame.
An RJ driver "subsidizes" nobody except themselves. If I was a plumber and decided to underbid everybody else in the market am I "subsidizing" the other highly paid plumbers or just ultimately putting myself out of business?
KC