Originally Posted by flyallnite

I still shake my head in disbelief that we still fly to day after retiring the type (glad we do, and the 747 that we supposedly would never see in DL colors) So when you say we've lost thousands of jobs to the RJ, I'd have to disagree. It might be more accurate to say we failed to gain those jobs, but at the time, the membership didn't want them. (I recall saying to our current MEC chairman back when he was a SO rep that the RJ was something we should look at limiting or merging into our list, but at the time, most of the membership was former military, and didn't see the forest for the trees). That base is now nearly closed after the nuclear RJ blast that eventually consumed itself.