Regional pilots hate on other regional pilots because of the whipsaw game. Some folks get lucky and get a quick upgrade, but it always comes at the expense of a 7-8 year FO, who had bad luck and their upgrade "stolen". I don't think it's right to act immature, but that's where the hostility originates. And, while not directly the fault of the quick upgrading pilot, it's somewhat justified.

On the subject of 175's for AA, I seriously doubt it. I'm at Envoy and we are really fat on pilots. I'm looking at the DFW reserve list and more that 40 FO's are getting paid to sit at home today. The top half of the list has barely worked the last couple months. They could award us 20 more airplanes tomorrow and we'd have no problem staffing everything, even if we don't end up transferring any thing away. They are spending lots of $$ to get the 175 program up and running here, so they'd put us to work before betting on another airline.

Also, AA is nearly scoped out, so there's that.


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