I do that a lot.
"Who do you work for?"
"CommutAir (then without missing a beat), it's one of the United Expresses out of Newark"

Let's face it, when you work for a no-name airline, you gotta throw that down. Especially when you're at some random airport trying to commute home.

I'd say 3/4 of the mainline pilots I talk with while commuting haven't heard of any regional outside of Eagle, Wisky, Skywest, or Colgan/Gulfstream/Lakes (none of those in a good way) unless they worked there.