Right now the current payrates were forced upon the mainline pilots before I got here, besides I make 140,000 as an FO right now and no I don't work for US Airways so before you continue to open your pie hole maybe you should know all the facts. I have been at the regionals/PSA and know what you deal with, I was there when we voted against the 900's because of a crappy offer from management who only was offering better schedules and upgrades for the FO's. So Mr Regional I do believe even with todays crappy mainline contract we are still further along than the regional carriers and we haven't had the opportunity to say no yet to any offer since 9/11, you have but chose to drink the kool aid. Delta and Alaska are the only mainline carrier's that have voted in a new contract. Spirit is a low cost and have no regional feed. It will be a while before the contracts are back up to where they should be, but based off of inflation the pay everywhere is less than it was in the 70's, but I will take my mainline pay and QOL over that at the regionals any day. Good luck to you Dooork, if you are proud of your regional contract then god help us because we will continue a downhill spiral. Everyone needs to fight for a better contract both mainline and regional alike. However I see the mainline contracts coming back up just look at Delta/Northwest new JCBA and now UAL/CAL are negotiating a new JCBA that should be Delta JCBA or better. They will have their time to say ya or nay and if they vote in a substandard CBA then feel free to open your trap again, until then keep being KH little pets and fly your RJ. Oh and lets not forget that most regionals in the 80's and 90's didn't have regional jets they were generally smaller turbo prop operators. PSA didn't get their firs RJ until 2004 and the pay rates we got in 2004 were concessionary pay rates and was voted in by the MEC without membership approval, the first TA was voted down by the pilots and the MEC passed the 2nd TA without the pilots seeing the new TA. So maybe if the mainline guys went from all B737's in the 80's and 90's to an all A380 fleet you would see a signifacant jump in their pay rates as well just like the regionals going from small turbo props to larger jets. Try to justify why you agreed to substandard pay rates all you want but this new image the PSA pilot group has disappoints me. Besides you agreed to crap pay for a 90 seat jet, why????