. Then who's going to fly the regional aircraft if all we do is hire directly into the majors.

The second broken aspect is the Regional/Major divide. If you're not experienced enough to be a FO of an E190 at JetBlue at 1,500, then you're not experienced to be a FO a SkyWest CRJ at 1,500. The basis of your argument cannot seriously be "Well, the Regionals are an experience building stepping stone so it's okay". The American public deserve better. I have no doubt you build valuable experience at the Regionals, but this whole system only exists to save shareholders money, not to train pilots for the Majors. [/QUOTE]

You are not a pilot and are disregarding every single response to this from pilots. You need experience to fly. Which you need to work on over a few years. If you have no doubt that you build valuable experience then why should there be this god awful program? This system existed before regionals were flying jets. You got experience flying smaller turbo prop planes and kept building on that. Now regionals have crjs and embs and that was because no one had the foresight to see that the ceos decided to cut major jobs and replace the routes with the cheaper regional guys.



You are clearly not reading what I'm typing. I have repeatedly said I don't think any graduate from an ab-initio program should get a slot from the Majors ahead of a more experienced and qualified pilot. [/QUOTE]
Then why aren't you taking flying lessons getting your ratings, becoming an instructor then getting a job at a regional going to the left seat then in 4-5 years get on with the majors?


You are red-herring the hell out of my posts. Only I'm not putting down Regional pilots, because I didn't say that. I literally had to re-read my posts to verify I didn't say those things. I never said you get the same experience going directly to the majors. I never said you get the same experience after flying a 172. I merely asked, for example, why you're comfortable with someone flight instructing in a 172 (or whatever), and then piloting a CRJ at a Regional at 1,500. Why is that okay to you? [/QUOTE]
Well who do you think is going to fly at the regionals? OK then we should not let any pilot fly at a regional until they have 5000 hours. How's that? Dies that make you feel safer for the public.


You came on here and asked a question. Myself and most of the other guys told you how bad this program is yet you continue to try and justify yourself by arguing against guys who have been in this industry for years. I'm sorry you don't like what we have to say



I seriously have no idea how that could quite possibly be your reaction to his post.[/QUOTE]