Originally Posted by Fegelein

Your want all that.... fine. You are going to have to meet the requirements of mainline, which many regional pilots fail. So by dreaming that regional jets be flown by mainline, they will be flown by mainline caliber, mainline interviewed, vetted and trained mainline pilots.

You wanting RJs flown at mainline will end with putting thousands of existing regional pilots on the street as they are not mainline caliber. They may be good enough to fly and RJ at a regional, but not good enough to fly the same RJ at mainline. Those seats are reserved for the traditional mainline candidate..... military pilots and properly educated and experienced civilians, not your typical zero to hero regional "dude".