Originally Posted by enuff

Well I have been on both sides of the fence, have you? After spending just short of a decade at a large regional and over a decade at a major I can tell you there is a difference. I never said regional pilots were worse aviators I just presented the facts. Since flying at the majors I've flown with maybe two or three guys who were not college educated. At the regional I flew with many guys never finished college. At the majors a college degree is still required with few exceptions. Is that the case with the regionals? At the majors you won't find to many guys that had previous failures and incidents with the FAA because they were weeded out in the hiring process and those pilots stayed with the regionals because their hiring standards were less stringent. How many majors have you been hired with? And don't blame the majors for the historically bad wage, benefit and retirement the regionals offer. You guys have had plenty of opportunities over the years to raise the bar and what do we have today..... 37 dollars per hour for a 12 year Republic f/o, maybe one carrier with trip and duty rigs and pretty much all regional carriers whose management violates their contract daily because of very little respect for their pilot group(think Comair, Mesa ,Go ,ASA, Trans States etc etc etc). I've flown plenty of domestic trips in and out of the east coast but until you fly into China with different rules, proceedures and broken english don't tell me your job is harder. I've been there and done that and I can tell you there is a difference. My worst day at the major I fly for was 10 times better than the best day I flew at the regional I worked for. And one other fact about the majors, you won't find a lot of punk ass kids who seem to know it all. If your happy where you are great, but if you get the chance to come see how the other half lives by all means come and join us. I'll by you the first beer.