Raw skill? Lmfao. There is a woman who drug a wingtip on a calm wind day. She’s at delta now. But raw skill, lol ok.

 

It’s not about the quality of the player, it’s about the team that you play for. In baseball, there are more people willing to shell out big bucks to watch a major league game than a minor league game, therefore the players for the major league teams can command much higher compensation. In our sport the players for the majors control most of the games being played through scope clauses. The owners would much rather let the lower paid players take the field, but they can’t. As a result the majors have much more leverage in determining compensation levels. The experienced players in the regionals are good as well, but they lack the same leverage as those at the majors. If I could wave my magic wand I’d have the regionals make contractual gains to the point that the current whipsaw regional business model is no longer cost effective and we’d all be better off, unfortunately that isn’t the case. My original point was that the people running around saying that they are apparently good enough haul passengers for brand x at regional pay, but not for brand x pay gets a little old. Some really good pilots never get an interview, some bust for good reason, and some make it. It’s just the way that the game is played.

 

We are all just pilots. The companies have set this separation up to squeeze the most work for the lowest pay from all of us. Guys at the Big companies are employees just like the rest of us.

All pilots get paid by the same people, the passengers!

 

Both the legacy and the regional pilots are paid from the same checkbook.

 

You're right, but the legacy pilot is holding a much bigger gun to the guy’s head writing the checks than a regional pilot is. Guess who is always going to get the bigger cut.

 

Except during chapter 11.

Let's hope this crap goes away quickly for all pilots sake.

 

no it’s very true. I haven’t see any of the childish behaviors/lack of CRM/violation of SOP I witnessed at the regionals

 

Now that's funny

 

Then you need to get your eyesight checked.

 

One of the biggest oddities I've seen in this industry, as a second career person at a regional, is the tribal/entitlement mindset of different pilot groups. I never saw anything like that in the engineering world. The notion that "we judge others by their actions, but ourselves by our intentions" seems to be especially accurate.