Guys,

I personally know Selcall and know his history. The point he is getting accross is the massive expansion of the regionals and continued creep into large and larger airplanes is killing many people's chances of getting to a major and is a huge detriment to the volume of mainline jobs as well as their ability to draw the larger paychecks that everyone dreams of.

His career was put on pause at the regional level a good while simply due to this fact. Selcall has paid his dues over and over again, and he was one of the top notch captains I flew with when we were at a regional.

The fact is, he's got the big picture that many of you need to have- the fact that huge regionals and them getting bigger and bigger planes is killing this career from the bottom up. Sure, you'll get into your jet quicker just by sheer volume of jobs available, but shouldn't that 89,000 pound airplane's right seat pay closer to 100 bucks an hour then 25?

I see the comair guys complaining about everything, talking about the cockiness of the delta pilots while they are as bad and many times worse than those which they accuse. This is coming from an outsider to the delta system until I got hired there. I've followed comair through the years in my journey trying to get to a major...and there are some great guys there and the unfortunate others who bought the "comair is the best of the best and delta sucks" ideal. I see similar at asa.

The fact is we should all be pushing for smaller and smaller planes at the regionals and for reverse scope creep instead of vice versa. I pushed for that while i was at the regional level... and doing the same now.