jayray2

Are you sure there are airlines that are running credit reports? Do you know which ones are doing it? I think it would be a good tool for them to use but I am just curious if anyone is doing it. And if I understand correctly, in order for them to run your credit they need your written permission?

dckozak

I know this is a long dead thread, but did the OP ever get a regional job? I looked and see he(she) stopped posting in 2013 but would be curious if things turned out okay. Tough when you have problems with your work history that can or do sink your dreams. Would be nice to hear a story where things tuned out all right.

JohnBurke

What is a "major regional?"

Air Guitar

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rickair7777

One that's too big to be arbitrarily liquidated with a few months advance notice?

JohnBurke

Oh. Too big to fail. And a major regional. As opposed to a regional regional. Or commuter regional. Or flag regional. Or super duper regional.

Too big to fail, like Expressjet. Or TWA. Or Eastern. Or...is this still aviation, where everything eventually goes bankrupt, tits up, merges, downsizes, furloughs, fades away, or collapses in one form or another?

But yeah...major regional. Just as the elevator guy is a Vertical Lift Operational Specialist. I was just learning to spell library, and they went and called it a media center. Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.

rickair7777

I didn't say too big to fail, I said too big to fail instantly.

An immediate shutdown of OO, YX, or MQ would be highly disruptive of major airline networks. In fact, we saw this in action last year.

I don't think there's any official category of "major regional", but I think I know what the guy meant. I think he just meant big enough to be stable.

JohnBurke

It's pompous glorification. Like the student pilot that wants to impress people, becasue he's not flying a Cessna 150. It's a "See One Fifty," which sounds a lot bigger. Burger King becomes the BK Lounge. A truck's not really a truck until it's got a HEMI. And that shiny jet, from nearly 12 year ago in a long dead thread now, operates for a Major regional. Not just one of the regional ones. And in India one isn't just a pilot. One is a Wing Commander. Which sounds a lot like a character in a GI Joe cartoon, but self-impresses just enough that it never seems to die the death it deserves.

I saw a guy on a regional flight not long ago, not quite in, but close to that coveted regional first class section, wearing an olive drab nomex flight suit with USAF insignia, major clusters, and a name tag that looked like it came from a box of cracker jacks, loudly telling people he was a pilot, in case he didn't get the point across with his costume. He seemed all of twenty, maybe. Impressive, though. Sneakers, and all.

Maybe he was a major regional pilot, too. If I could have found a scrap of paper to get his autograph, and made it through the troves of adoring fans scrambling for their overhead bags, I might have asked. Imagine that, getting to meet a pilot from a major regional. How cool is that?

TiredSoul

Not to be mean but why ?
There are literally thousands that fall by the wayside in this industry.
People with real and with make believe problems.
It’s far from perfect but that’s the way it’s been since Reagan.
Move along, nothing to see here.