Until we figure out that we are professionals, we never get the respect/compensation!

[Alchemy]

Yeah, so let's all blame the RJ's and their stupid FO's for the problems of the industry again. Have you people taken a gander at "LEGACY AIRLINE" payrates lately. I guess all those new 737 FO's at Continental are nothing but SJS suffering morons. You do realize that a position as an RJ FO is often easier to get than a right seat job at a turboprop operator yet it almost always pays at least 25% more? Tell me again why it's stupid for a young pilot to look for that RJ job?

God, if someone wants to go fly an RJ for 15,000 a year, or even pay somebody that much to sit right seat in a B1900 for a year, who are we to stop them? You have to get your foot in the door somehow, and it's a helluva lot easier to do with 1000 turbine SIC than it is 1000 hours C150 PIC. If you hate the airlines so much, quit, find another job, or never apply to one in the first place. The market will determine our wages, and right now the market for the airlines is very BAD.

 

[YourPilotFriend]

The problem is mainline jobs being outsourced to these regionals, not FO payrates. Those really high salaries will not leave, since management must still dangle the carrot, there will just be a hell of a lot less of them. The 50 seat market is dying, why are pilots stepping into larger airplanes at regional payrates, they should know better. When is the line drawn, will only mainline fly international? Could all domestic flying be done by regionals? If management has their way, then yes. There is absolutly no reason a 250hr FO couldn't fly a 737,757,767,a320 etc, they are actually easier to fly than a saab 340. The slide battle is currently at regionals taking on bigger airplanes.