Hold on here a minute, by that comment I would have figured this was flightinfo.com. I asked the question regarding 121 alternates in a REGIONAL forum because I assumed most REGIONAL pilots are 121 no? Plus there was already a thread on the general topic. If you don't have anything helpful to add, please don't respond.

KiloAlpha & others, thank you for your responses. I am getting technical on the question because of an upcoming interview, and I figure it's better to over prepare than under prepare. KA, one more thing though. I noticed in your response you said that 121 can sometimes be more restrictive than 91. In my example, if you follow the ops specs, 121 actually helped you out because all you needed at RIC to file it as an alternate was 400-1 instead of 600-2, which is posted on the 10-9 page. So just to clarify, can I legally overide the airport's posted "weather minimums to file as an alternate" with the ops specs?

Thanks for the help.