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In the next 15 years, there are 30,000 retirements at just the three Legacy carriers alone, a number nearly double the current number of regional pilots. There's no way they're going to up gauge that much.Originally Posted by Squallrider
(even though I think most people don't realize that that doesn't mean everyone at a regional will get a job at mainline, half would at best due to larger capacity aircraft.)
I'm not saying that every single regional pilot is going to have a seat at mainline, but I'd wager it's going to be a very high percentage.
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but realistically no mainline pilot will fly a 175 at anywhere near regional rates
No current mainline pilot yes, but it wasn't too long ago that Continental first year pay was $33 or something like that.but realistically no mainline pilot will fly a 175 at anywhere near regional rates
If the big shots decide they want to fly 76 seat jets and not worry about staffing them they'll soon figure out that they'd staff them forever at $35-40 for the first year, on a mainline list.