So everyone stating that the degree represents the face of the company is full of it.

For most customers they don’t even recognize they are on another airline other than a smaller plane and perhaps it being announced as “operated by”. My point being if we are good enough for their customers at a regional level why do we suddenly need a degree to be good enough for it at mainline?

Things I do at a regional I also would do at mainline.

1. Show up for work
2. Respect my fellow employees
3. Keep safety as my number one goal.
4. Ensure customer satisfaction
5. Make announcements, speak to passengers.
6. Deal with weather and mechanical.
7. Deal with co-workers and their individual personalities.
8. Maintain health and ratings
9. Pass training events
10. Spend time away from home
11. Make complicated decisions that involve many different factors
12. Etc etc etc.

Name something you do at mainline I don’t do at a regional and describe to me how not having a degree somehow precludes me from doing it mainline but not at a regional?

It is a antiquated model that I am confirming too, begrudgingly, not because I don’t love learning but because it is arbitrary.