The time time required to get hired at any company has always directly correlated to the pilot supply pool. When hiring has been quiet for several years mins always go up and when hiring is rampant mins fall off a cliff. Without regionals the growth in small airframe jobs would have still required roughly as many pilots just on the mainline lists instead. That would have reduced hiring mins at the majors too in order to fill the seats.

Imo the only people whose jobs were truly 'created' along with the regional industry are all the middle managers and support staff that each individual company is required to have.

Got #5 covered...

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Bottom line:

1). A DCI pilot's job exists as an exception to the DAL pilots' Scope language. The exception exists because DAL pilots allowed it or traded for it, ergo it's ridiculous to blame the pilot that is performing the excepted flying.

2). A DCI pilot's job exists as an exception to the DAL pilot's Scope language. This doesn't confer upon him any right to request any action by the DAL pilots to increase, decrease, or leave alone the scope of said exception.

In other words, when it comes to the negotiation beteen DAL pilots and DAL WRT Scope, the DCI pilot is blameless because he has no responsibility, and without say, because he has no rights. How DAL and a given DCI carrier negotiate over a portion of excepted flying is between those two entities, and whether a pilot group performs the resulting flying, and under what conditions, is between the respective group and their airline.

End of story.

Did you ever fly for the regionals?

I did, and I always thought it was the biggest sham ever. Big Airline buys lots of shiny new jets to be flown by the lowest outsourced bidder. Mainline pilots stand by and justify their actions that allowed this outsourcing by every means possible. Complete sham.

The biggest opponents of RJ outsourcing ARE usually the RJ drivers, especially the "jumbo" RJ drivers. They are the ones with the front row seat and can most easily see that this flying "should" be done by the pilots who's Airline BOUGHT the JET!

A little perspective is always helpful....

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I think this debate is important. I hope that everyone sees the light on RJ's and recognizes the dividing impact that they are having on our Profession.

In two years I'll be old enough to have some Boomer!!!

Meanwhile, Coach will have to do.

Bless you Jesse for bringing light to the darkness!

Thank you Jesse, thank you. Back on track.

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