Originally Posted by JungleBus

I seriously doubt that. First, most new hires are smart enough to keep their mouths shut at least while they're new (outside of APC and the occasional column in the world's most widely read aviation magazine, that is ). Secondly, most of us are likely to agree with guys like CGfalconHerc that were furloughed & stagnated for long periods: outsourcing is bad. I think CG and I agree on that. Where we seem to be disagreeing is that I think it was bad for everyone, while he seems to think the RJ guys reaped a windfall. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. As CG mentioned in his last post, there is definitely a contingent of RJ lifers that either never wanted to start over at a major or were unable to get hired (no degree, DUI, marks on record etc). These guys definitely benefited from outsourcing, they made more money and got better schedules than they would have if the regionals had stayed in their Be1900/E120 niche. But a large portion of the current regional lifers never meant to be lifers - there just weren't any major airline jobs when the timing was right, and then life/family/money got in the way. Increased outsourcing didn't really help these guys, in many cases it killed their careers. And then there are those of us at the regionals who always had a major airline job as a goal. I guess you can make the argument that outsourcing helped us get our turbine PIC - but to what end? Turbine PIC doesn't matter much if the majors aren't hiring. Having the regionals grow to the behemoths they did while the majors furloughed guys like CG certainly didn't help our careers. So while some RJ lifers may disagree, I think you'll find most ex-RJ guys that get hired at the majors will tend to agree with guys like CG who were harmed by outsourcing.