Originally Posted by
Bartender
Sorry 80kts, but transporter is correct. I came from another profession before this one, and I have never seen such a level of contempt and second class citizenship between professionals as I have seen between legacy mainline and regional pilots. It's disgusting quite frankly. Delta is the worse offender. The Northwest guys treat us much better. The points being made here are valid, the mainline guys just won't accept that they look down their nose at regional pilots.
I don't know anyone at DL that looks down their noses at regional pilots. You've been consuming too many stereotypical "van admiral" stories from the 80's or whatever.
I've observed a LOT of regional jumpseaters on DL flights. For every 1 DL pilot that is prickly towards them, I've seen 100 welcome them aboard with open arms, or take their own bags downstairs to make room for the regional pilot's bag, or take the FA jumpseat to get them on. And 9 out of the 10 of that 1 in 100 that were jerks would have been jerks to anyone. But I'm willing to bet there isn't a regional airline around that doesn't have their 1%ers that are jerks.
When you accuse others so broadly, and so baselessly, of having a chip on their shoulder when its not true, it kind of makes you look like you have one on yours.
Everyone's hiring right now and likely will be for a while. Want a better airline job? Do the work and prep and get a better airline job. I'm sure you're qualified WRT skill. There are other things they look at though, personality being one of the big ones.
Don't get bogged down with defensive pessimism or blame others. Stick with it, and always work to improve yourself. You'll get to where you want to be.