Mainline pilots keep saying this... For the regionals that operate only for UAX, yes the planes are owned by UAL. However for other regionals like Republic and Skywest, we own our own A/C. They ARE NOT UAL property, they are property of Republic and Skywest, 100%. We should not be bumped off of our own airplane by a mainline pilot who flying for United Airlines. United Express is a brand name not a company. When United has 100% stake in a given company, then yeah they can have priority. Otherwise, mainline gets priority for their metal, and we get priority on our own. It's the agreement and the very least mainline can do is honor that.

The current deal is presently and will be honored, but it should be changed. The seats in the back belong to the parent company and a 25+ year employee of that company shouldn’t be bumped by an employee of a subcontractor who was in diapers when the mainline employee started working. The routes are mainline routes that are farmed out to the regionals. Without mainline, that airplane owned by a regional would just be a static display. Seniority should be honored.

If you want mainline seniority to apply on 50 seat aircraft, then incorporate those airplanes and their crews into your mainline fleet and seniority list.

While I don't completely disagree, I don't fully agree either. At the regionals we already get peanuts for pay in order to subsidize mainline pay, and back of the bus treatment in literally every single other fashion. The very least we can have is priority on our own planes. We literally move 60% of domestic air travel, thanks to the scope that mainline wide body pilots happily voted for...

When that plane says "UNITED" and not "UNITED EXPRESS" then by all means, a seniority system should prevail. But as long as we're making 70% less than what my other ATP, jet-typed brothers and sisters are making, slapped with an "EXPRESS" on the side and viewed as less than, our pilots will be getting priority on our own metal with regards to OUR seniority system.

I too want flying back at mainline, like much of us do. Sadly, I know it'll never happen, and even if it does, it won't be without massive concessions across the board. Hence while it'll never happen.

Mainline own the seats they sell. Integrate the seniority list and end the regional flying is the best solution.

Mainline unions would never stand for an integration with a regional, but I do think that regional flying will be reduced going forward, resulting in more mainline jobs. The pendulum swung pretty far towards the regional side in the post 9/11 world. The legacy carriers won’t get it all back, but I do see a bunch of the flying going back to the parent company resulting in the hiring of additional pilots to staff it. If I could be king we’d bring all of the flying in house, bring in regional pilots as new hires, and from that day forward the starting position at mainline would be on the rj.

I’d vote for a staple in a New York minute.

And I would gladly accept that stable in a NY minute.

I’ll provide the stapler.

When you “jumpseat” to South America on B6, are you still responsible for foreign taxes. I know when you buy a ZED ticket you are.