My point is you need to "learn to walk before you can learn to fly." A few years at a regional is ok if the result is a major airline career at $150-$200K a year later on in my career. As long as all flying does not switch to regionals, this is ok.
This is where USAir took the right course on making the EMB-190 a mainline jet.
This is where Mesa took the WRONG course. Anything 75+ or so belongs at a major. No more 90-100 seat jets at regionals.[/QUOTE]


I totally agree with the last statement that anything above 75 seats belong at majors. NWA used to fly the DC-9-10 with 78 seats. Now Steel'in wants to give the 100 seater to NewCo, the so called new regional airline of NWA, Inc


Good luck spending only 5-6 yrs at a regional. There are guys who said that 15+ yrs ago and are still at regionals