Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Problem is that most cannot see past the need to get 500 hrs of 121 PIC to even be competitive for the majors. To get that you need a seat to do it in. To get that seat you need more RJ's. To get more RJ's you need the mainline to cave on scope. If they cave on scope you mainline job is farther away. Sounds like a hamster wheel to me.
Less than 10 years ago they were hiring guys with no jet time. Fact is they still did in 2007-08. DAL's take is if you have PIC turbine time, it does not necessarily need to be part 121.
The whole reason people have decided to make the regionals their career is the total relaxation of scope. These days you are looking at 15 years to a left seat of anything at a major. Now in 10 years that will be down to less than two years. Good for the junior FO's just starting at the regionals or the ones that are starting flight school. Not good for the ones that want to come to the majors and are in their 30's.
Just look at the retirements before you scream out loud that you want more RJ's. A little patience for the this instant gratification society. Because of the scope relaxation, I spend a decade at a regional. Not fun at all.
Great post. I want to see all of these regioanls shrink. I don't want to spend my entire career at one of these crappy companies, and the more flying that goes back to mainline the better it will be for all of us in the long run. Personally, I feel you are a fool if you plan to make a career at a regional. I swear some of us can't see the forrest for the trees.