Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
There are many pilots what would be more than happy to see progression at their current regional job than to come over to mainline as well. We as pilots are our own worst enemies.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 100% ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Hey Mr. Jumpseater, who are you with?"
"ASA"
"Were you going to apply to Delta?"
"Well, I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure, you know right now, and my wife is, and I have pretty good seniority, I've been here 10 years, and well I don't know, I'm a Captain now..."
"How much do you make?"
"$78 an hour."
"You'll be back there by year 2."
But you know what, if you don't want it then don't bother. There are plenty of people who want it, we'll bend over backwards for people who want it, and frankly see OH as a warning and not a 'ha ha'.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
That was not the point. Point is that these "Super Regionals" want to get to the scope and size where their route structures and circumnavigate mainline PWA's. That would be at your expense.
We have discussed this scenario many times.
I am interesting in tieing these 5 things together: the lessons DAL has probably learned from RAH and funding their growing competition, the "we want out of the RJ business" comments from up high, the Continental Express LAX risk sharing system, not finding anyone to bid on buying OH, and this Compass and Mesaba sale to none other than TSH.
Its like looking at one of those darn Magic Eyes. FWIW, if I were a regional airline right now I'd be saying the same thing Delta said "we want out of the RJ business."