Originally Posted by spank

Because people sitting in the seat next to them gave up scope to regionals at some point to save their own tails. The state of the industry right now has a number of contributing factors...

Nobody's happy about it. Hopefully those that have been put out at the major level by their own counterparts come to their senses. While jumpseating on a mainline flight the crew I got talking. The captain, a fairly senior gent, stated how he would never fly an RJ no matter how big it is. The FO was on the other end of the spectrum, saying how he can't believe that regionals have anything more than 50 seat aircraft.

Regionals are no longer "regionals". Much of North America can be reached by an RJ from a domestic hub now-a-days. I sit right sit in CRJ-900 that has replaced a number of old mainline routes. Why? Old school pilots didn't want the flying when it was on their plate. Now we're all getting the shaft.

I for one would love to see mainline pilots re-claim regional flying. A lot of folks with have to swallow their pride and put their ego aside for this to happen. CRJ7/900s, EMB170(190 NOW!?!) do not belong at regionals. It will only better the future of the industry for both regional and mainline pilots to return the flying to where it belongs.

I realize this is a ramble of a post, excuse the grammar and think about the points