Originally Posted by
Jetlinker
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.
Didn't necessarily say it was an RJ issue. The fact is flying was shifted from one carrier to another. Better paid Pilots were replaced by ones earning less money flying smaller equipment. It didn't make me feel any better that a sub-contractor was doing the flying, (even if CAL was signing the checks), as it took away from mainline flying.