Interesting take from someone with your screen name.

 

Some mainline guys are so out of touch it was their greed that created the regionals....

 

Fortunately for you, nobody cares about his hare-brained scheme.

In the next few years, many will get hired. Regionals may shrink, this can be mitigated by regional pay raises and fast-track, sponsored pilot training programs.

But I don't think regionals are going away, or getting brought into mainline, for several good reasons.

- If you bring the planes AND the pilots, the you are open to an Mcaskill-Bond SLI. Mainline doesn't want the disruption and mainline unions don't want to have to fight for their seats against RJ lifers. Unless you can get the RJ group to voluntarily sign a staple deal with RJ CA fences (the lifers won't).

- Management knows that the pilot shortage and the good economy will most likely end some day. They would like to preserve the regional model intact, so they can benefit from it in the future. Even if regionals get expensive in the short term... the good news (for management) is that they don't need BK to claw back regional raises, just resume the whipsaw as soon as market conditions permit.

- Mainline also uses the regionals as a farm league. They can somewhat mitigate liability exposure by keeping the noobs on the smaller planes. Colgan and Comair would have cost a whole lot more if those had been narrowbodies (or widebodies ).

- Mainline unions like the regional system too... despite a few RJ SJW types most mainline pilots know that they can get paid more because RJ pilots get paid less. As long as you have appropriate scope. Hard cold fact.

 

Except if it’s on the WO or even PO (partially owned) one, god forbid the CA/FO/FA leave out the “Connection/Eagle/Express” part.

Lest the commuting/DH’ing pilot in back come up and give a stern/condescending lecture that they are NOT Delta, American, United....

And YES, in all my time there, I’m FULLY AWARE of what was to be said.

Since this is where the thread went, I nominate a tool from over 15 years ago. Was on a DH, in the window, mainline pilot in the aisle, revenue passenger in the middle. Passenger chatted with the mainline pilot most of the flight. After landing and taxiing in, she sees an RJ go by and asks “do those pilots make decent money?” His response, “they’re not real pilots”.

And now, on occasion, I get to work with those kinds of tools....

True

Also true, keep preachin’ brother

What’s the opposite of false, TRUE!!!!!

DING DING DING!!!!!!!

Although it’s a smaller line item, the RJ feed helps. As was used for scope relaxation in tne 90’s and has continued, those high yield widebody planes going to int’l places don’t just fill up themselves on O/D traffic.

Doesn’t matter if it’s the tiny (relatively) PS I get or the fat one a DAL guy gets, a portion of that was born on the backs of the B-/C scale wage RJ feed.

 

Recemmond that he and his colleagues take a pay cut and bring the regional pilots to parity. That’ll shut his pie hole.

 

Huh? I’ve come to accept that I’m a regional lifer. I’m not going to expend energy complaining about life being unfair or other nonsense. I just found his lecture to be very condescending. Like I don’t already know that the worst day at a major is better than the best day at a regional.

His argument was that I should be happy to accept a huge pay cut to keep my current job in exchange for a small chance to be a permanent rj pilot on his list or a permanent NB FO. Of course a mainline FO position is better than an RJ CA position, but what happens to the schmucks that don’t get selected? Finish off the career at an even lousier pay scale than already exists?

 

I agree with your opinion and would be upset too.

On the other hand I just can’t go along with being a republic lifer in the current hiring boom. Unless you are over 60 and just putting in the time there isn’t a reason to stay.

Best of luck to you regardless.

 

How about the San Antonio city council from banning Chik-Fil-A from the airport.

https://www.ajc.com/news/san-antonio...iC8daT0uDVtlK/

 

The airport is a 7 day a week operation, chick fil a is not. That space should be used for a restaurant that will provide services 7 days a week.

 

That’s a silly statement. They are not paying rent for 6 days out of the weeek. Meanwhile the city will lose close to 2 mil on generated taxes.

It’s pure political. SAT is on a fast track to be next sfo, city is ran by extreme progressives.