Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
Those aircraft do not compete with the MRJ or the 175E2. They're CRJ2/7/9 E145 replacements.The original point was you guys want regional flying in house. So why haven't you told your union that you would fly an RJ? Mainline guys do not want to fly regional jets. Again these planes are coming one way or another because current RJs are getting old and nobody wants to fly on them.
You again seem to think the union can decide to bring the flying in-house and that makes it happen. The shift to above 50 seat RJ’s was shoved down are throats when times where tough in the industry. The biggest migration occurred when the survival of the airline was in doubt. DALPA spent a lot of money attempting to show we could operate the E170/175 at the mainline. We tried to get those airframes at the mainline. The increase in weight to 86,000 lbs that allowed those airframes was one of the most controversial aspects of LOA46 in the chapter 11 process. In the end we lost the battle and hundreds of pilots were furloughed as a result. Times are very different today and I am extremely confident we can hold the line at not one more lb or one more seat. You should be cheering us along and hoping we succeed in that goal. It’s your future not mine!