Originally Posted by
fortyeight
You missed the point. LGA turns out of ORD for DL while UA and AA mainline push next to me doing the same thing should be a crime. Of course regionals aren’t going anywhere, but it’s time we start tapping in to those profits while we do the same exact thing they do and support their product more than mainline pilots do.
If ifs and buts where candy and nuts, we would all have a merry Christmas - as a regional pilot how exactly do you think we should accomplish this?
Seems to me a company called Commair tried that - and it did about as good as the Bay of Pigs Invasion did. Aviation is a layer cake and the regionals are at the bottom - that’s the fact of life.
Airline Apps is a way out, because if your respective pilot group finds a way to tap into those “profits”, there is five other regional companies willing to do the contract for less than you and before you know your airline is stapled to the long list of “defunct airlines”.