I've been in the corporate/charter/regional world most of my aviation career. So many years ago I had hopes and dreams of flying for Delta and to this day I'm still trying to get hired there, but after reading what Delta is trying to do at the regional level disgusts me. I hear so many guys at Delta say it's a great place to work and I believe it is, but what's to stop Delta management once they get the regional sector where they want it to not try and bust the mainline pilot's?

I've even heard some mainline pilots on here say we have taken their flying and now we are getting what we deserve, but most of us were just trying to find employment. When my charter/corporate gig had the writing on the wall of going bust I fortunately was able to get employed instead of the street.

I guess my points this - we are our own worse enemies at times. Did I or other regional pilots cause this problem by getting hired by our carriers rather than choosing the streets? Hands down we would have gone to a mainline, but that hasn't been an option really ever in my lifetime. The worse thing we can all do is blame the other pilot, but instead realize we are all in this together trying to be pilots and make a living to provide for our families or life goals. It would be nice if we ever saw the day that instead of trying to beat each other up we stood firm and all fought back at management when they tried to harm another pilot group.