Originally Posted by Nantonaku

I'm not an aviation historian but my understanding of the whole RJ deal was 1.) mainline pilots thought they were too good to be flying small jets around and 2.) if there was any selling of scope, Twisted Mind might be wrong by telling you personally that you sold it but was there not a contingent of pilots above you that essentially "sold" this for their own benefit? Point 1 still stands today, if it didn't you would have any extra 4000 pilots below you on your seniority list flying RJs providing you with more job security. If your pilot group wanted this to happen in the next contract there is no reason why they couldn't make it a reality.