Originally Posted by
MunkyButtr
Why do you have to add your bs to evvvvvveeerrryyyy single thread. Youre complaining about upgrades in one thread yet youre against something like this. Pick a side. Scope is something that was lost when years ago. You realize youre at a company that added over 100 rjs in a matter of years? This is the new age for the industry and there is absolutely nothing we as pilots can do about beyond quitting and that aint happening. All we can do as regional pilots at this point is have our unions fight for compensation. If majors want bigger regionals they will get them. Offer a bigger carrot to mainline pilots and youll get your scope. If you could make 20 bucks more an hour on a 73 or 77 wouldnt you take it after everything you lost after 9/11? Someone will start flying 900's for AA. Its inevitable. I dont want my company to not go after it. If its out there and someone is going to fly it I want it to be us.
Absolutely not! This post REEKS of SJS. You must be a young punk pilot in his 20s who upgraded on the Q in 1 year, and now disappointed that a mainline carrier hasn't hired you. You CAN do something. Go picket when mainline pilots have events. Support their cause! I really think mainline guys are done giving up scope, and should not fall for those stupid carrots anymore. Those 900s should be flown at the legacy airline level. For Pete's sake, Air Canada has got it right! They gave out the 700s/900s to Air Canada Jazz but every single EMB-170/175/190 is at mainline Air Canada. In fact, the entry-level position at Air Canada is on the Embraer 170/175. That's how it should have been here. Instead, we have Republic the world's largest operator of "E-Jets"
You know what? I actually hope we at 9E lose all the Qs and the CRJ-900s. I hope mainline takes that flying back! Do you realize that Delta pilots have a published payrate for the bigger RJs? Regionals should never have expanded beyond the 50 seat market, but now that it has, I look forward to it getting cut back. Take the greater than 70 seaters back to mainline, and let the regionals operate the 50 seaters or less. Then as time continues and the 50 seaters become less efficient, right-size the regionals by having them park a portion of the 50-seater fleet. After 9/11 we had a huge disproportionate amount of growth in 50 seater RJs. It's time to take that back. Regionals should shrink, some should disappear altogether, and the bigger RJs should be operated by mainline. Sure AA will have to operate the 900, but it should be AA pilots that do it! Only those pilots willing to whhore themselves out (like you) say something stupid like you would be ticked off if your regional didn't bid for that flying. If that's how you truly feel, then you don't get it!