When you hear the Captain exclaiming to the FO, "wow, 23 MELs, I don't believe it!"

If you fly on one of the RJs and withdraw your application from the company, it might be a regional jet...

If you quit the company before furloughs and get a recall notice, you might be a very lucky pilot for a regional jet...

If you are on military leave and get a missed trip because you were junior manned, and have to get the lawyers involved... are you sure you want to come back to that regional jet?

When you make more in two hours of flight instructing than you do in a week at the airline... it might be an RJ.

 

When you step aboard and think "huh!?! is this an RJ"

...it might be a 138 seat RJ

 

B,

Nice to see you around again. Been hanging out at the "other place"?

(dasleben)

 

If your sitting next to a fat guy you are the fat guy. Be ridin on a rj.

 

If you take off at O'dark 30, Eastern Standard Time, and land at an earlier time in the Central Time Zone, you might be flying an RJ.

 

Getting up at 4am sure sucks, but I sure love those pre-dawn departures. So peaceful...

 

If catering fills the cart up in the boarding area because the door is too small on the other side, it might be a regional.

If you're the captain and your aunt is the junior flight attendant, you're at NWA.

 

The last time I didn't have to duck to get in any airliner, I was 5 years old. Then again, I'm taller than most.

 

If you catch your flight crew in a food stamp line, it might be an RJ
If pretzels are considered the vegetarian meal, it may be an RJ

 

If you hate the job ALPA or your union is doing for you. You might be on an rj.

If you have the screen name "Global Express" you might be on an rj.

If you think that the mainline hiring dam is about to burst wide open due to "upcoming pilot retirements", you might be on an rj.

If you ever wake up late night/super early in a hotel room and don't know what city you are in, or what day it is, you might be on an rj.

If you ever wake up early, shower, dress and put on the uniform and then realize it's your day off, you might be on an rj.

If you stay on the crew bus doing laps around the parking lot because you can't remember where you parked your car, you might be on an rj.

If, after the fourth lap around the crew parking lot, you finally call your wife to report the car is missing and presumed stolen, and she tells you that she dropped you off for your trip, and that the car is in garage, you might be on an rj.

If you subscribed to Kit Darby's Air Inc, you might be on an rj.

If you gave up that corporate 135 flight gig "just so I can have a schedule", you might be on an rj.

If your captain buys you lunch, because "he's been there", you might be on an rj.

If one of your passengers buys the whole crew lunch (or drinks) later on at the hotel bar, you might be on an rj.

If a seven year old kid hands the pilot an envelope full of pennies because he had heard that pilots don't make much money, you might be on an rj.

If that pilot keeps the kid's envelope, he might be a captain on an rj.

If you can go through all this, plus deal with goofy management and other crew, long duty days, commuting, cancellation, maintenance issue, weather issues, day after day, and can still smile, you might be on an rj.