Originally Posted by
airlinepilot50
Mainline own the seats they sell. Integrate the seniority list and end the regional flying is the best solution.
Mainline unions would never stand for an integration with a regional, but I do think that regional flying will be reduced going forward, resulting in more mainline jobs. The pendulum swung pretty far towards the regional side in the post 9/11 world. The legacy carriers won’t get it all back, but I do see a bunch of the flying going back to the parent company resulting in the hiring of additional pilots to staff it. If I could be king we’d bring all of the flying in house, bring in regional pilots as new hires, and from that day forward the starting position at mainline would be on the rj.