Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Oh, I know. I believe you.
I just believe that had the
pilots in command of the pilots in command 
had had the big picture in mind they could've made pilots aware of what could happen and nipped this before it got started and long before regional jets out numbered mainline jets 619 to 514.
I'd blame the pilots and there were a lot who deserve to be blamed, but Carl is right to push back and say not every pilot bought into this back then. I remember AMR's pilots demanding that any RJ be flown by mainline.
But people bought into the CRJ-100 as a Brasilia/ATR/Saab replacement and never realized it'd be a 732 and DC9 replacement and therein pushing the smaller jets to replace the bigger jets throughout the domestic fleet. And people signed off on pilots who had PFT and $12,000/yr starting salaries flying replacement jets, it was outsourcing to the lowest and most abused bidder.
What I am really saying is basically we needed someone to have seen the CRJ-100 for what it would become.
That takes a lot of wacky imagination in 1993 but had someone at ALPA realized it and said no when the opportunity arose where would we be today? Imagine if we had SWA scope?
Well, in the end, we're left watching the ship sail hoping we can get it back. :Eek:
You make some good points, but on the bright side, we're not the same pilot group we were in 2001. We've seen and experienced things the 2001 pilot group could not have imagined. Even the more clairvoyant
among us, and we're not slaves to a DB plan where a pilot's FAE in the last three years of his career determined, to a large part, the economic value of a 30 year career. New era, different rules, different pilot group.