Originally Posted by
SmitteyB
That is not true. As a legacy Colgan pilot who has first hand experience of what you are talking about I have to say that you are spewing complete garbage. Does Colgan have a few knuckleheads? Yes, but so does ExpressJet. Colgan had a very capable pilot group, unfortunately a couple bad apples do spoil the bushel, so we will never shake that reputation.
I think the crazier thing is - is that you have this obsession with Colgan all these years after they came with Q400s into Newark and "stole" XJT flying. It was 7 years ago! Get over it!
Smitty you are exactly right! This is part of the problem with this entire industry and the same lame "a"ss excuse the major's especially DAL love to use against regionals and why there can't be flows. It's just too bad a regional can't have the ability to buy out DAL and then the regional can say to DAL pilots "we cannot have a merger or flow! There may be some bad apples among you and you need to go through our interview and testing first. We might consider a SSP with restrictions but we will look for any loophole we can to get out of our agreement."