Originally Posted by
SAABaroowski
I love how some of you people who are the cause for the REGIONAL AIRLINE are now SCREAMING Mainline airplanes!!!!!!!, One seniority list blah blah. Its like when I had this "MAINLINE" guy at the ALPA leadership convention tell the regional guys we are destroying the industry, meanwhile it was this ignorant clown who probably caved on scope some years ago. THIS MESS was created buy the GREEDY MAINLINE guys, not the starving 22 yr old CFI
Having been both, I can honestly say that the blame can be shared. The real blames lies with the acute lack of leadership at ALPA National. The goat-screwing of the emergence of the RJ is the biggest ALPA policy failure of our time. It should be the title of the next "Flying the Line" "How ALPA Goat Frigged the Emergence of the Regional Jet" Jets fly at mainline period. We should have all stuck over it. Additionally if ALPA would not have allowed Jets to be flown at such paltry rates the attraction of them flying at commuters would not have existed. We have set a terrible precedent while companies like ASA, SKYWEST, MESA, and CoEx made a fortune off of shinny jet syndrome. Pilots are our own worst enemies.