Originally Posted by
MrMustache
Agreed, sucks for all who are trying to get on outside of these.
It forces more pilots to come up through an ALPA affiliated regional airline rather than from the military or other sources. I guess that's the goal.
Problem is, as ALPA continues the upward creep in the number and allowable size of "regional" jets, this arrangement is pretty much nothing but a thinly disguised B-scale.