Originally Posted by bne744

Well it sounds like you are the kind of person I am talking about in my post....I am in no way trying to be negative towards any one of our pilots there are just some people who are too caught up in the fact they are flying a jet that they don't even realize that they are getting paid to do it, and would probably do it for free, the industry is not going to go anywhere with people like that....and there was mention on here of Mesaba getting the CRJ1000, now I don't know of one regional that flies anymore than a 76-seat plane, Majors have scope clauses in their contracts for a reason because if they weren't there Mesaba would be flying 747s to Tokyo and the 2 pilots combined would be making $100/hr, thats why Mgmt likes regionals because the labor is so much cheaper and maybe you should look in the mirror before you go off calling someone a self-righteous idiot....