EC wasn't hired at NWA. I interned back in the day at NWA and I was never promised a guaranteed interview. Had I held some golden ticket interview with NWA, I wouldn't expect to be able to cash it in if NWA no longer existed. You seem to have forgotten that the music stopped after the merger and there was no hiring at Delta for the 1st 2 1/2 years post merger. Merger occurred early 2008 and the 1st new hire class post merger was August 2010.

Uh, technically, an RJ pilot job is a lesser job than any mainline job.

No, technically, it is a different pay scale. There is no judgement on who has the "lesser" job.

GF

Seriously? I take it you're being sarcastic in this response. Not like we all magically transform when we get a mainline job and become a Chuck Yeager.

Wait, so if we stop accepting these wages then the game is over? And you are the realist? If 10% of the current regional pilots sign their name to a promise to quit then I'll gladly add my name. However my single resignation by itself will not end the game.

Completely agree about the pay and upgrade time. Garantee that compass guys would be complaining if they had been 7+ year fo's. This industry is no fun for anyone when stagnation kicks in. Compass guys don't fuss about it because there is movement and things to look forward to such as upgrade and pay. When you are sitting in a seat for a long time and no hope in sight for advancement it is a discouraging thing. So many at mainline and regional have felt that now.

Hopefully the future will be brighter for all.

Nantonakj,

You have reached a basic understanding of economics, congrats. Twenty, heck ten, years ago there was barely a fraction of the outsourcing that is standard now. It exists for one simple reason, the airlines realized they could get all the aspiring pilots they wanted at half the price of a mainline DC-9 crew that was flying those routes. You and thousands of others thought this was the shortcut to fame, killing the deal for everyone.

GF

Either you really are management or you bought into their BS hook, line, and sinker. Regional "lifers" aren't killing their companies with "extremely top heavy pay". The only truly "extremely top heavy pay" at the regionals is the management group. I would agree that pay needs to come up across the board for all regional pilots, and the best possible way to accomplish that would be to vote down any concessions, and for new hires to stop showing up at the lowest paid and worst regionals(a good starting point would be those owned by JO and Hulas).

Ha are you calling Delta1067 entitled? Do some research on those NWA/Delta flows from XJ in 2010, pretty sure he's been flying planes since you were in diapers. He's not part of the entitlement generation.

Your posts on the other hand reek of entitlement. You are labeling any regional CA for more than 5 years as a lifer and loser. In another thread, you wrote that you did not apply to Frontier. So now a regional CA who also does not apply to Frontier/Jetblue/Virgin/Spirit and only wants to wait for United/Delta/American (and since they haven't hired a lot recently) is now a lifer loser? You sound PO'ed because they are holding "your" left seat. Anyway you're at Jetblue now so this shouldn't really make a difference.

Vag,
I come from 4 "closed shop" airlines, plus hired at an additional 2 who then stopped hiring (one I had a class date with, the other, a legacy , instituted a hiring freeze after getting to swim in it's pool,.. we'll call ya with the reinterview date).
Would love to see some mechanism to compensate for a previous airline, but the question is as to how?
Would it involve hiring favoritism? A higher senority number? Same senority but more pay? (good luck with that). Then of course, the age old issue of those who watch this unfold having kittens as someone moves in ahead of them on either the list or pay scale. Yeah, it would be a job with better pay, but then a lifetime of dealing with the ensuing animosity.
Unless it was institutionalised across the board, I don't see it happening. Pilots are in general too short sighted to think that they will ever someday be in the same position. (By the time it happens to them personally it is too late and the cycle continues...for at least as long as airlines in their current structure continue, but that's another thought stream)