Originally Posted by Bluedriver

Well, haven't been called a juicer at JB in a decade. I'm almost universally considered too "hardline pilot" when it comes to JB vs pilot stuff. But go on, tell me more.

Originally Posted by BeatNavy

You sound like you’re new to the industry? Do you know what the term “mainline” means? It refers to the main operating portion of an airline, as opposed to its regional counterpart. For some odd reason, some RJ guys (and apparently you) sometimes refer to the big 3 as mainline, but they are only “mainline” as it relates to their particular overall operation. For example, if you fly on a United flight, it would be proper to say you were on a “mainline” United flight. Or perhaps even if you were at a wholly owned regional, saying you want to work for “mainline” would be properly understood as the mainline owner of that carrier in that context. But using “mainline” to describe the big 3 legacy carriers is dumb. And trying to insult jetblue pilots by saying they think they are “mainline” makes you sound kind of ignorant (to put it nicely). Unless of course you’re playing into the internal joke of the Airbus being jetblue mainline and the 190s being jetblue express. But I suspect that isn’t the case.