Originally Posted by saab2000

This is correct. "Regional Airlines" are nothing more than an outsourced C-Scale with no career advancement.

Put these airplanes, all of them, on the mainline certificate and this problem goes away. It would take a full scale shift in thinking but the recruitment problems and the fact that nobody is getting into this business anymore would end quickly.

Give it a career path and it can be a good career. "Regional" (I hate that word as it's nothing but language that was put in place to sell the industry and the public on the idea that it's a lower level of flying, 'entry level' so to speak, which it most definitely is not) airlines are dead end jobs.

Bring this back in house and the problem is solved very quickly.