Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
WHERE are you advocating those 100 seat jets be flown? Regionals and the regional concept needs to go away, not be filled with even larger planes flown for even lower wages.
At United and flown by United pilots. It would create more mainline jobs and make parking the 50 seat jets less difficult. We have a ton of 50 seaters now because scope is working and they have no other option that they wish to take. Buying 100 seat jets would even give Kirby a few more 70 seaters that he wants so bad. The good news for the people in the regionals is more legacy vacancies, the bad news is that more jobs would be eliminated than created by mainline, but such is the nature of the swinging pendulum. Mainline jobs were eliminated to grow the regionals, and now scope will eventually force the elimination of regional jobs to grow mainline.