Originally Posted by
grdprox
I don't understand what makes RAH's 70/90 seaters any different than say Mesabas, Skywest's, Pinnacle's (insert regional here) 700/900's. What is it, the mainline looking engines under the wings? If say Mesa introduced the RJ 1000 tomorrow would you still be up in arms? Or thats ok because it still LOOKS like an RJ.
Because NWA/DAL/(insert Major here) did not trade in 75% of it's pilots for poorly paid regional ones <---- That is the biggest difference.
75% of an airline got laid of for this, THIS IS THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE, not looks.
Want me to say it a third time?
Tim Hoeksema maybe the antichrist, but I really hope he screws RAH over like he did us. Then the Chinese Ornstein, Ching Ming 15 Motorcycle Man, will come in and with his $8 FO's take over your flying and 75% of your pilots end up on the street. Then the $8 FO will go, "what is wrong? it is our management, not us." They then come on a messageboard like this in droves and say, "I don't see what's wrong? Everyone else is doing it?"
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This winter some 170 CA will land in a blinding snowstorm, lose sight of the runway at 10', and still land the airplane skidding off the end. No doubt tired from the crappy schedules his regional forces on him, perhaps he has to sleep in the aisle for his next flight after his redeye. Or perhaps, tired, they'll stall an airplane while landing because his regional airline was too cheap to provide him with a stick pusher scenario in a simulator.