Then the tangent into woe is the RJ pilot. Here's my two cents...
- RJ life sucked when it was 1900Cs and EMB-110s but it was a stepping stone and it's still structured that way regardless of the fact they now fly EMB-175s or what is tantamount to a Airbus A317.
- Mainline carriers hire by experience and you get the experience at the regionals. A pilot doesn't control what the regional flies, but if they want to get hired at DAL/UAL/AA, they got to fly whatever there is. If mainline carriers had scoped regionals and all they could fly is the B1900E models, we'd still done it.
- You can point fingers at major airline pilots because they control scope and to this day are still allowing the jumbo RJ fleet to grow. That said, a good portion of mainline pilots who had nothing to do with the scope sale or lack of reigning in scope with the introduction of the CRJ-100 and were furloughed after 9/11. They have the right to be pretty ****ed off at everybody involved and especially Comair.
- I think CGFalconHerc made some very good points that were subsequently overlooked.
- I think Timbo provides a lot of insight, not only on the original RJ debacle but also the Delta Express stuff.
Bar I still don't understand "unity", but all I want is to get the regionals (now majors) out of these things...
and into these...
