Originally Posted by Timbo

This reminds me of the same argument I had with a few DALPA MEC guys back in about 1993, when we were allowing the RJ's to grow, after we had just parked the DC9's.

Many of us said, "If the company wants to buy RJ's, fine, but WE should be flying them!"

The MEC said, "WHO would want to fly that little POS? We will never get any military guys to leave the service to sign on as new hires if they know they'll be stuck in an RJ right seat at those pay rates..."

I said, "I'll bet if you call all our furloughed pilots, THEY would LOVE to fly them, and flying right seat in a little jet beats flying 727 engineer on the B Scale, and we never had any problems getting military guys to do that!"

The Delta MEC has been -against- bringing RJ flying to mainline for many years due to that argument. Curly Bird on Chit Chat is still against it, but he was of the MEC vintage I just spoke of.

We are finally regaining the flying we gave away 20 years ago. Now we need to work on the pay rates.