Originally Posted by
MR JT8D
All 50 seat flying is dead in the water. Period. Republic and Skywest will suck the life out of Expressjet, the monster is the mainline narrow body flying that is really going to put a lot of pilots on the street. Expressjet is not meant to have any future via Skywest. Expressjet has ZERO!!!! Toast!!!!! Step off the Titanic. Gracefully.
Yea, 50 seater flying will eventually be dead, but not yet. I also doubt anybody will be "out on the street" as the shrinking of the 50's will take a while and in the mean time legacy's hiring will ramp up. Also, as the CR2 goes out the EMB 175's that are on order will fill in. ExpressJet has the most to lose I think as they are relatively high paid (compared to PNCL/RJET/etc), so I'd think pay raises are going to be tough to come by. In the next few years I dont think XJT or really any big player will be a bad place to be, get your time, and move on. Back to the old days before the massive stagnation and waiting for retirements (unless they raise the age again, but even then, not all will even physically make it, or even want to..).