RJs are not the problem...they are the outcome.

Are you ready to say that hybrid cars are hurting the auto industry...or that alternative fuels are hurting the oil industry? These things are outcomes too...unavoidable outcomes to circumstances that are changing the world we live in.

The simple fact of the matter is that companies cannot continue to fly 737s on short legs...at least not until a 737-size jet can be made that is as efficient as a RJ. Too expensive to the bottom line.

And, like it or not, the bottom line is what this is all about.

Folks...we just have to get away from the idea that companies are in business to give us a cushy job! I wish it were so...but it isn't. Maybe 20 years ago or so it seemed that way...but even then as former Braniff, Eastern, etc pilots will attest to, it wasn't really the case.

Aircraft like the 170/190 series have changed the rules...and I don't see the rules going back to the old way anytime soon. Now we can either accept that as a fact of life and get about making that work out as best we can...or not. I see it as either getting on that train...or staying behind in the station.

Not the answer any of us want to hear...but it's the answer that's written on that proverbial wall.