Originally Posted by Excargodog

The other breakthrough moment is realizing that mainline pilots don’t regard you as junior fellow comrades-in-arms, but as cheap competition undercutting them for mainline passengers and little more than scabs. It was different, perhaps, when regionals were flying 20 pax turboprops on short trips to the hub, but with 85,000 pound regional aircraft carrying 76 pax for 2500 miles from hub to hub, the guys at mainline have ceased to be amused. Look at the threads for Alaska which has no scope but is expanding their flying through OO and QX for an idea of what mainline pilots think of the regionals…