Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I would be strongly opposed to eliminating the title Regional from these forums. The forum structure is designed to be user friendly and easy to navigate (we hope), not to make a political statement.
Newcomers would be very confused.
The newcomers need to learn the reality of this profession from day one.
Just as APC tries to enlighten new pilots/pilot hopefuls on the ways of being a "real life" airline pilot, they need to know this as well. They need to know that there are few regionals left and the disticntion of regional/major/mainline is becoming more blured by the second.