Originally Posted by forgot to bid

Alright, just to recap...

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I blame Deadhead.

But, I don't think the FAA was unaware of what was going on with fatigue and pilots, but to rewrite the rules required an accident even if the cause of the accident wasn't fatigue. Without an accident there was no reason to make a change and therefore no political leverage.

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...