I like how all the Colgan guys here were all "keep your jets, we're happy on our props" before the SLI came out. Now that it came out, Colgan has tons of guys moving over to jets, and their positions are being filled by other Colgan pilots. Sure, the Q got a few XJ or maybe 1 9E pilot, but the rest of Qs all went to Colgan, and the Saab is 100% Colgan.


And as for the previous war a few pages ago with flyprdu, I'd have to agree: being downgraded is a worse fate than keeping your left seat and now commuting. Because at least you chose to keep your seat at the expense of moving your base. You could have voluntarily downgraded yourself to stay in base, and several XJ pilots did so. But the guy getting downgraded had all his darts thrown out there, and couldn't get a single Captain slot due to the BS Bloch quotas and fences. Besides, if you're a XJ pilot, you should have no dog in this argument. The alternative you were looking at is downgrade for your Captains and furloughs for your FOs if this merger and one-list didn't happen.