Originally Posted by
rickair7777
A mainline pilot group which brings RJ's in-house and then charges narrow-body wages to fly them might very well wind up non-competitive.
I'm sorry, but you're going to tell me that even if they got $100 more per hour EACH, it would make them noncompetitive? Take a two-ish hour flight from EWR-ORD. You're telling me that the difference between profitable and uprofitable is $400? [EDIT: PROFANITY REMOVED]. That's a little over $5 a seat on a 76-seat RJ.. Take that raise down to something resembling the difference between your average RJ rate and what, say, united airbus crews make and it's laughable.
If $1.50 a ticket is the difference between your airline being profitable and failing, you're running it wrong. Period.