Originally Posted by
G2TT
And before the 170 it was the cr7&9, before that it was your 145 and cr200 (Regionals flying jets? How dare they!) Before the RJs it was dash 8s and ATRs (regionals flying turboprops carying 50+ pax? How dare they!) Before that it was 1900s and JBalls (Regionals flying turbines? How dare they!) There's always something destroying the industry. As Boiler said, it's not the airplanes fault. It goes back to the pilots who DIDN'T want them who started this debacle.
if only those pilots back then would have thought like that then instead of arguing which regional is lowering the bar we could be all flying for delta american united usair and continental making $100K a year and living the dream that this was originally supposed to be........