Originally Posted by
thevagabond
This pops up from time to time. They sure seemed to enjoy flying Connies and Clippers. If the Dash was the first plane on the way to a 380 or 787 I'm sure they wouldn't squawk much.
When PanAm owned Ransom, and there was one seniority list, the fact that new hires had to start on the turboprop equipment was in fact "an issue".
This was also true when USAir operated the M298 (Nord 262). That program was moved to the regionals, and the mainline pilots seemed to be happy to have it gone.
Make no mistake about it, the regionals exist like they do because the major airline pilots did not want little airplanes in their fleets. Of course no one says that, but the track record from the 1980s speaks for itself.