Originally Posted by
DENpilot
I know you are getting *excited* about thinking of having mainline size jets at the regional level, but stop and think about this for a second... why would AA so feverishly be trying to divest Eagle (and successfully so) just to turn around and violate their own pilots scope clause by giving 100 seaters to Eagle?
What exactly constitutes a mainline sized aircraft? I'm not at eagle or aa so I have no dog in this fight. But I certainly hope that our mainline partners can figure out a good answer for it because I have no desire to be a regional lifer. I will say that my take on mainline sized aircraft is any aircraft that the mainline pilots refuse to give up scope.
The best possible answer would have been any aircraft in the mainline livery should be a mainline aircraft. Subcontracting never should have existed. Unfortunately the cat is out of the bag and it doesn't seem to want to go back in.