All right, I've read all the posts on this thread and I'm in agreement with you all that are pi$$ed off at these guys saying that they'd do the job for half of 160. That's just nuts. After 30 years of putting up with garbage from management, line checks, fed rides, being away from home, and everything else, we all deserve $324/hr or whatever you guys at DAL were making...we do! But how do you do it? Please tell me. I was in the industry for 11 months before getting furloughed. I flew the Saab at XJ for $24/hr....PATHETIC!!! But what am I supposed to do? Pilots at the majors would constantly chastise me for 'taking their job'....with 34 seats?? Come On! WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? I want your job when you retire. I want to make what we all know we deserve but how am I supposed to do that when the senior pilots at the majors don't protect that? Giving up scope and payrates??? I don't want to fly anything at a REGIONAL unless it has props and I'm dead serious. To me, regional is CLE to TOL not CLE to JAX. So all of you guys that are upset tell me how I can help. PLEASE!
I realize I'm gonna get it for the prop comment and it's unrealistic to think that but where does it stop?? 90 seaters?? Regional my A$$!