I get really uncomfortable when people try so hard to rank regionals. For one thing, they all suck. You are going to deal with the same kind of crap whether you are at Skywest, Envoy, or Mesa.

Now the problem is there is no "best" regional that will be best for everyone. There is a best regional for me, and there is best regional for you. They could likely be totally different. You want a list of low/mid/high tier companies, but there is no real objective way to do that that is good for all of us.

An example. You list Compass as low tier (that's fine, I aint hurt). Now I wouldn't recommend compass to a lot of people, but I just talked to a guy on the phone who should totally come here. For him and what he is trying to do, Compass is pretty high tier and some place like Endeavor is pretty low tier.

It just all doesn't matter either way. Today's darlings will be tomorrow's bottom feeders in a few years anyway.