Originally Posted by
Chuck D
I sort of doubt it. Was there for over a decade and I never saw a single one or even heard that phrase uttered from crews I flew with. It's either urban myth or if it existed, it was put on for a brief period a long time ago by a couple of the sort of 2%ers who exist at every airline and are probably not capable of hiding their ingrained idiocy in an interview. I'm sure they were put in their place pretty quickly by others.
The significant majority of RAH'ers don't want scope erosion at the majors, are doing what they can to move on, are solid professionals and enjoy a beer or two with crews from any airline - again with the standard 2% cutout for fools found at any airline.
Oh they existed and were mostly seen by LAX and SFO based pilots, where a Republic aircraft has never touched it's wheels. They were also seen a lot over in ORD over in the E and F gates where the regionals park, but the 170 never parked there for UA they parked at the end of C. They were also rampant back in 2003 when UA went bankrupt, before the 170 was even delivered and 2 years prior to United Express even operating them. But they saw them a lot in IAD on Independence flight bags, which of course had nothing to do with Republic.
Oh they existed but those of us that actually worked at Republic somehow never saw them........