Regionals started as small turbo props, and it was because pay was associated with number of seats that pay was low, not because they were turbo props. As I recall, large turbo props were once flown by mainline. Today, the Q400, a 70+ seat turbo prop, flies all over the place for pay much less than that of an equivalent 70+ seat jet. Not only is it a regional aircraft now, but it is a turbo prop, so the pay gets a double whammy. Pay has somehow shifted from number of passengers carried to also look at the power plant used. What a scheme by management to further reduce pay.

In the mean time, regional jets grew from 35 seats, to 50 seats, to 76 seats, to 99 seats (Republic, sorry to have screwed the pooch on this one). And every time some argument was used with some imaginary cap on number of planes allowed. You limit the number of regional planes with 50 seats in them, and of course the word jet is applied, not aircraft, so now there are 50 more large, just as comfortable, turbo props flying around for you because you made an arrangement with management.

Delta pilots, I implore you, please do not make the mistake of allowing more large jets, turbo props, or 76 passenger gliders, balloons, etc, to be flown by regionals. Delta is not gonna keep those 50 seaters until 2024. Those f...ing things won't last that long. They are already falling apart. Customers hate them. They are loosing money by flying those things.

Do you really think you are winning by swapping 200 of them now for 70 more larger RJ's? Or do you think that the cap is real THIS TIME

I fly for this POS operation called Republic, and I am trying to get out with all my might. Just for me, please don't allow them to get more flying. Please, don't fall for the BS that you are reducing the number of DCI seats. You would simply be swapping a ****ty RJ, one customers hate, for a really nice RJ, a brand new RJ, one customers really like.