Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
Very insightful post, but one question, devil's advocate....
Why would the majors cannibalize their own WO regionals? Why not reduce the flow to a trickle and hire as much as they can from outside of their WO's in order to hurt their competition's WOs?
If you cut your flow to almost nothing, then ALL your regional pilots will leave for some other mainline. Then you have no regional, and no pilots for your mainline. You won't be able to hire the "other" airline's regional pilots, because they will have a decent, stable flow-thru system, or they will just absorb their own regionals...