Originally Posted by Itsajob

Even at 300% pay outsourcing is way less expensive. It has already been mentioned that Ual doesn’t pay that, Mesa does, and only on certain flights. If the 76 seaters were flown by mainline they’d have mainline pilot pay, flight attendants, mechanics, parts inventory, training cost, etc. That is a lot of high dollar expense and only 76 seats paying for all of that. A common type like the 319neo or max 7 would cut down on the cost of adding a separate fleet type, require fewer pilots, and have more revenue seats to cover the cost. Don’t shoot the messenger, just thinking like a manager. The regionals can’t find enough pilots to even cover their attention and what is showing up to class is not exactly quality. Months in training and 4 times the normal IOE is common now. Even if the unthinkable happened and mainline gave away scope, the market has cut managements ability to grow the regional numbers since they don’t have the crews to cover what is there. I think that the companies best hope is to replace a bunch of 50 seaters with 76 seaters, but still have to add mainline aircraft to cover the shrinking supply of regional pilots. Being that the odds of mainline relaxing scope are very low that could be good for us. 76 seaters just don’t generate enough revenue, but higher paying max7’s or 319neo’s may.