I understand the logic of F/O's using it as a stepping stone (hence the high attrition) but I just cannot wrap my brain around somebody who qualifies for DEC at copa (thus qualifying at many other places) would fly a 737 for less than I was making flying a CRJ at a ****ty regional 10 years ago, with less days off to boot. In this business there are bad times followed by not so bad times, if the barrel is empty then you scrape the bottom, but there are some goodies in the barrel now a days. I guess that is why we say that we are well trained monkeys, we love working for peanuts.
Well, sorry if anybody got their feelings hurt because I pointed out that there are options. Good luck