Originally Posted by
Whiplash6
The regionals are the only way major airline pilots can gauge themselves professionally. They get to turn their noses up to the regional pilot as he passes by in the concourses only to log onto the forums and hand down life lessons, all while keeping completely silent in your jumpseat. They may beat their wives, wear white sneakers with stone washed jeans, and have a son that despises them...but at the end of the day, at least they're not regional pilots.
There are plenty of us at mainline who wanted to hold the line at 50 seats so that everything above that would go to mainline. It wouldn't help us, but it would stem the tide of scope creep. We lost that battle due to more senior pilots accepting weakened scope.
In fact, there are plenty of us who would like all flying to be under mainline but that's a tough genie to put back in the bottle.
Your post stereotyped mainline pilots. I could do the same by posting about the brand new regional pilot who had his epaulets on backward. When I told him that, he said, 'are you sure'? So all of you regional pilots wear your epaulets backward.
That was no less silly than your post.