Originally Posted by
LAXtoDEN
Why is it only United pilots who think this. Most of you came from the regionals correct? You should know better. You won’t be “absorbing the majority of regional flying”. The routes will just disappear.
They’re not going to fly half empty 73’s into these small towns. The routes they do keep will be serviced once or twice a day and that will be that. All flying should be done by mainline pilots anyways.
Flying a Max 8 uses far less fuel than a regional, that’s why. Same reason we passed on the Max 7, got an incredible deal on the airplane and uses about the same fuel at cruise. The routes won’t totally disappear, they will be consolidated into 1-2 mainline flights.
The more interesting question is why do prospective new hires think United is unique in the hiring surge? Every major is hiring like mad, we were actually behind in 2019, starting to finally catch up now.