Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
What I am saying is there would be no gnashing of teeth about regionals flying 70+ seats if DALPA had scoped the CRJ-100 in 1991. Instead, Delta pilots thought they were too good to fly the "small jet" and it went to Comair,
Exactly - it had nothing to do with caving on scope. They didn't want it there, for whatever reason, that was their decision, for the same reason ZW doesn't want any more props or 50 seaters.
The regionals took advantage of the situation later on though by taking 1/3 of the pay for flying the same equipment size (70 seaters).
It's not one groups fault - both (regional and mainline) helped proliferate the expansion of the RJs IMO.
But if you want to trace the beginnings back, I would say the rift started when the subcontractors/code share partners appeared. If you're buying a DAL ticket, you should be flying on DAL equipment with DAL employees.