Originally Posted by
waterskisabersw
Many regionals aren't as bad as the great lakes et al but there are plenty of regional operations that routinely do 6-8 legs per day. I'm still an FO here and I came from multiple regionals where we did 8+ legs per day, and that was the only option, unless you were super super senior and could get a line with only 4 legs per day.
The behemoths like skywest and such may have mainline routes, but there are still quite a few regionals out there where 4 leg days are the baseline, and more is the norm.
More like 3-5. I don’t think any regional still does 8 legs a day, even garbage ones like Piedmont that mostly do short flights