You're assuming there is somewhere to go....there hasn't been until recently. We hired some RJ guys into a corporate, they and their friends were amazed at the pay, the opportunity.

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Wow! This is the dumbest, most ignorant post ever.

Why wait until 10 years to start cutting pay? Why not five? Heck, why not pay FOs 65K for putting up with these CAs? And to insure good turn over, let's CUT CA pay to 40k. Heck, they are only going to be there until they get the magic 1000 TPIC, and the pay cut will be good incentive for them to get off their butts and move out of my,.. err, umm, and move on to a mainline.


One thing posts like this (move on and get out of my way) fails to consider is that every regional lifer frees up another mainline slot for you poor folks. Just imagine, if all the lifers at all the regionals decided to go to a mainline, you get-out-of-my-wayers would still be stuck at a regional for several more years. And then YOU would get to hear idiots tell you regionals were never meant to be a career.


(Edit: if your post was sarcasm, you got me.)

 

Again....

The only reason regionals exist is because of the seniority system and the fact that pilots can't make lateral moves to competing companies to force salaries to increase based on natural demand. The airlines can continue to lower salaries as they have been for thirty years and there's nothing pilots can do about it.

So arguing that pilots shouldn't stay at a regional or that it shouldn't be considered a career job is entirely missing the point.