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This is confusing. What do the pilots on international flights have that those making 1/10th on regional flights lack?
Are those thousands of hours of flight time actually useful if seniority arbitrarily resets when a pilot changes airlines?
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Probably a matter of experience and certification on the bigger jets, international etc. All the regional jets are smaller, and many routes aren’t even jets.
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“Flying, meanwhile, has also become unbearable for passengers.
The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly”
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It goes right into the canon of using lots of words to ignore consumer surplus. I like how airline jobs were simultaneously 'glamorous' and 'solidly middle class'.



