For the 3 regional airline of XJ/9E/9L scope, it should have been DOH. XJ and 9E DOH would have been fair, and 9L would have had to spend more than 15 months before upgrading to Captain. Oh no! DOH would have impeded "career expectations" of Colgan pilots. Yeah, how are those career expectations today when your airline doesn't exist.

It was all complete BS. It should have been DOH, accept, and move on. Of course, the 9E merger committee fought for only the senior 9E side of things. I heard directly from one of those 3 merger committee members that the "CRJ 900 group being a category by itself was our worse case scenario."

Ask yourself, whose worse case scenario? Certainly not mine. Only the top senior at 9E. Because our -900 category is only 16 planes and therefore a lot smaller than XJs.