Originally Posted by
757Driver
Kettle, meet pot.
I remember when I got hired that CAL mainline used to fly all over the place domestically. St Louis, for instance, was all mainline. Then slowly but surely a company called Express started to grow. Amazingly we didn't and if I recall right for 7 years CAL didn't hire one single Pilot, (1990-1997).
To get on here and lament that people are stealing your flying is almost laughable. I don't wish this on anybody but it wasn't Republic who started this trend and a good look in the rear view mirror might be in order.
You've misunderstood what I said. I never said anybody stole XJT flying. That
is laughable.
All of XJT's growth took place while CAL owned XJT. The ERJ's didn't hit the property until 1997. So whatever happened between 1990-1997 was not caused by the ERJ. It was a terribly run airline before Bethune got there. Right now CAL is probably in the best shape of any legacy because there are no RJ's bigger that 50 seats on property, and hopefully it stays that way. If that changes, you have nobody to blame but yourself.