Originally Posted by Excargodog

The regional's in the past few years have accepted people with much less experience, less education, more training failures, more speeding tickets and/or other run-ins with the law, and similar issues than the majors have - historically - accepted in new hires. The regional's did that, of course, because they were desperate, but it seems unlikely that the majors will ever be that desperate. So will this group wind up permanently capped as captains in the regionals? Or will they be accepted by the majors?

That's pretty much the question.