Originally Posted by
DashTrash
Not now they’re not!!! Almost all of are for the abolishment of the Regional Airlines. Especially, those of us who spent the Dark Decade in Regional Pilot Purgatory. As a United Pilot, I don’t want outsourced crews to fly our passengers. And they are OUR passengers. That is how Dr. Dao happened. There wasn’t a single United Employee involved. You approach a situation differently when it’s your company at risk. Also, the experience level to handle such situations is much better. At any one point in a United cockpit there is at least 20,000 hours of experience. Most likely more!!! The Flight Attendants also have much more experience (usually) than a regional carrier.
Get over yourself. I've worked at regionals and a legacy carrier as well as jumpseated on many others. The level of competence from a flight deck perspective actually seems lower to me at the "legacies" than most regionals.
Not sure why that is though, maybe the shear number of legs coupled with less management/dispatch support makes the RJ pilots sharper? Or maybe it's an age thing..I don't know!
Regardless, we're all in this together and want more mainline (higher paying) jobs for everyone.