Sculprit
Well-Known Member
Any thoughts on regionals getting into the 135/charter game? The whole point would be to avoid these new regional pay scales. To an extent Mesa does this with 737s but their ops is so small and senior that it’s the opposite of what I’m getting at below.
Im talking about taking CRJs and converting them to freighters and letting wet 250 hour pilots along with aged out pilots fly these?
Could this be a mitigation strategy for regionals who don’t want to bump up pay rates to what the WO’s are getting? They’d be able to recruit new pilots who can avoid CFI’ing (@Maximilian_Jenius get your CFI) build them up to the 1500 hour mark and then flow them to the 121 side of ops?
Seems shady enough to be plausible. Or is this too ridiculous of an idea?
Im talking about taking CRJs and converting them to freighters and letting wet 250 hour pilots along with aged out pilots fly these?
Could this be a mitigation strategy for regionals who don’t want to bump up pay rates to what the WO’s are getting? They’d be able to recruit new pilots who can avoid CFI’ing (@Maximilian_Jenius get your CFI) build them up to the 1500 hour mark and then flow them to the 121 side of ops?
Seems shady enough to be plausible. Or is this too ridiculous of an idea?