While we're being pedantic, your use of "major" is technically incorrect. The DOT defines a major airline as one with more than a billion dollars of revenue. Envoy, Republic, and Skywest are all technically "major airlines". You're giving people a hard time about saying 121 when it's pretty well understood that they're talking about the top paying legacy airline jobs while in the same breath using the term "majors" incorrectly.
Originally Posted by
Shenzi105
Going through the NetJets thread and the comparison with the 121 is funny.
Stop comparing with what you call 121. It's not 121. The majority of the 121 airlines offer crap pay with crap benefits and employees are treated like crap. The majority; Air Wisconsin, Envoy, TSA, GoJet, Compass, Skywest, CommutAir, Republic, Piedmont, PSA, Expressjets, Silver Airways, Cape Air, Horizon, Mesa are 121 airlines.
Just semantics, but pretty important difference in pay/benefits/QOL, a grand canyon of difference between these and the Majors. Even the lack of pay during the first 3 months of training and the average $4,300/month at Spirit Year 1 is better than the above.
Start using the word "Majors". Fits what you want to describe and c compare NJA or Flex with.