Compare YOUR W2 to a LH, AF, or KLM pilot. A U.S. "legacy" CA's pay is lame, your going to compare an RJ pilot's?

Check my history? I was there! The RJ vote was in 1997, not "early 90's hstory". The agreement was for 50 seaters and their number was tied to the number of mainline aircraft flying. Again, IT WAS THE BANKRUPTCY that erased the scope. Basically allows unlimited 70 seaters as long as UAX block hours do not exceed mainline block hours. It is a license to steal, and in fact stole thousands of mainline jobs and allows 170Homie to brag about his state of the art Replacement Jet.

My pay may be lame, but at least I don't have to pay the mortgage on RJ pay......yet.

Props are for boats. But seriously, you gonna fly a Q400 from IAH to ORD?

Nothing is guaranteed. Just ask the guys that left good pilot jobs at UPS, FDX, and SWA in the 1990's because they "won the lottery" and got hired at a major airline about guarantees. Perhaps you need a little more experience and the benefit of hindsight to properly gauge this industry. I am sure you would love to shortcut the system and start flying the 190 at the expense of a mainline pilot's job. In the 1980's there was alot of that going on. Only then it was called being a scab.

You're completely missing my point. I agree, our pay sucks...just ask my wife. What I'm trying to make him understand is that it doesn't have to be this way. The idea that 'descent salaries are gone forever' is a bunch of crap in my book. We'll get better pay when we step up and demand better pay.

...And you all have completely missed my point. Like I said in my FIRST post, I am not gloating, bragging, insert verb here_________. I have nothing but respect for the (mainline) guys who have paved the way but let's make one thing clear. I was not in the meeting when management (or lack there of) approved the planes I fly or the routes i'm on. I DID NOT steal any route structure or installed 70+ seaters on those routes. I simply applied to a company that happens to supply that to mainline carriers.

When I said I am happy being where I am and have no intention of going mainline, I meant just that. I do not speak for every RJ driver out there. Why would I want to go to a mainline carrier, further my risk of fulrough, be on reserve for a year plus, wait for my # to be called a decade later for upgrade etc. for a few bucks more and a worse QOL.

Be CLEAR, I am NOT bragging about a freakin' plane, who cares! Oh, and I DO want more money and contract perks, we all do, and I would be the first one in line with sticks and signs to make sure we ALL get what we deserve. I was just stating that I love my job, love what I do, and i'm tired of people trying to take the simple joys left in this industry from me by trying to make me feel the recipricol. Sorry for the rant, gotta go fly and love it at the same time.

I don't think this is true for most regional pilots. For sure some but most not. At least not in its entirety. I believe the writer is on the E170 which would be a stretch to call it a regional aircraft. Most of us don't fly those. Air Canada added it to their mainline fleet which is where it belongs.

If you think that unpleasant things that happen at a legacy WON'T happen to you at a regional, you might be in for a shock later on.

Hopefully not, but to think a regional pilot is impervious to woes of a mainline guy, well........

Whoa.. Who said anything about safe. No one is safe in this enviroment. At this time it's just a little "safer" than the mainline, right now. And I would like to move on to bigger and better someday, but for me, bigger and better is Emirates or Cathay not Delta or United.