Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
There'a a reason they are there for 20 years. It's not for their seniority, glamourous life at the regional or killer schedules. Yes, I know there are an infintesimal amount of outliers (people with side gigs and their work schedule works for that given their seniority etc) but that's not the main reason most stay stuck at a regional for that period of time.
It's not only Delta, all the legaices just went thru an tremendous hiring boom with crazy seniority progression (just look at our 2 year 76 captain(s) ). No, most of the cats, so called "sticking it out" at the regionals, are just flat out not hireable at a legacy. That's why they haven't moved on.
And until that captains record is known, it's BS to get this talk started.
But I guess since no one died, I guess it makes it ok to go ahead and disparage this crew before the facts are known because of an agenda of outsourcing flying. Where most people didn't go, " regionals suck and pilots are inexperienced and will kill people" just minutes after the news of the DCA mid air broke.....
If you withheld your views on regionals after the DCA mid air, you should be biting your tongue here for now.