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You need to be willing to pay for experience, most of these regionals won't. According to Airline Pilot Central the first officer, who most likely had less than a years experience, was making $21 an hour for a 75 hour work month. Do the math, that's about $1600 per month. The pilot made maybe double that. Sullenburger probably makes between $150 and $200K.

Ah yes. It's all the regional's fault because they aren't "willing to pay" the 6-figure income of a veteran 747 pilot for a 40-passenger plane.

By the same logic, isn't it really the passengers' fault for being unwilling to pay $6,000 each for their tickets? After all, you have to be willing to pay for experience.

Ah yes. It's all the regional's fault because they aren't "willing to pay" the 6-figure income of a veteran 747 pilot for a 40-passenger plane.

Well there is a difference between $18,000 annual income and a six figure one, but I don't fault the airline per se. They got what they paid for; a flight crew unable to handle an icing condition one might expect around Buffalo in the winter, a crashed multi-million dollar airplane, and 50 dead people.