Originally Posted by ACEssXfer

Staple. 5 Year fences. For the duration of the fence off the street new hires go to "mainline" acft unless they choose to go to an RJ. They're already paying mainline rates for RJ pilots we may as well take advantage of it. This gets the WO guys seniority numbers and the mil/off street get to choose what they want. At the end of the 5 years everything will be well integrated.

Today's RJs are more advanced and in some cases have more seats than the entry level mainline acft from 30-40 years ago like fokkers and the stubby DC9s.