Originally Posted by
Lambourne
It isn't the mainline pilot groups that have hurt you. It is pure economics of the equipment you fly and the wages you earn. The regional 50 seat airplane is a money loser. That isn't the fault of the mainline pilots.
Gotta raise a major BS flag on this one. Legacy airline pilots, long, long ago, set up the current system whereas they were unwilling to fly/and or were willing to sell out the bottom end of their scope clauses for a couple shekels back in the 80's. Most regional pilots weren't even born when the graybeards retiring now set in motion what, at the time, was just a couple beat up operators of Navajos and B-99's; not the E - somethings or other now wearing Delta colors.
Originally Posted by
Lambourne
Why don't you find someone else to blame for all of your woes in life. I have to ask, did you do any research into the pay and benefits of your carrier before you took the job? Was this all a surprise to you after the fact?
What seems to elude most of the regional pilots is that having a job as an RJ pilot doesn't guarantee you a mainline cockpit ans pay rate. With the poor attitudes many display I suspect more than a few of you door very poorly in interviews.
I'd bet a round of drinks you never spent one day on line at LGA in a hot twin smelling upwind burnt kerosene. Does the flight suit still fit??
