Originally Posted by
osuav8r
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.
Here on APC we use the "industry standard" definition of "Major", which is based on business model, and type of aircraft flown, vice revenue.
Nobody expect gubmint bean counters use the gubmint definition.