What I mean is Rj's to Mainline. I noticed a XRJ getting a clearance from PIT to IAH. That is a flight a 737 or 757 should be making not a 50 seat pencil. It's unfortunate that the customer base is not there to fill the seats but then they should be feeding CLE or ERW instead of offering a direct flight.

Bottom line the guys at majors are bitter because someone can do it cheaper and more effiecently. And that someone has accepted the position to do it. Sounding familiar?

That is what I meant by the way some guys at other regionals act toward Mesa pilots. It's nothing personal, its business.

so we are all scabs to the mainline guys - i feel bad for any pax that has to sit in the ridiculously small seat of an erj/crj for more than an hour!! let alone 3 hours!!

is dork catchy ? ......like a cold or flu? ......sure hope not......seems to be ALOT of it going around!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I agree that the RJ is flown on too long of routes, but that is how the business is now. The mainlines are doing the same thing flying smaller airplanes on longer routes. Now 737s are doing transcons and up to 7 hour flights to South America. The mainlines are flying 757s to Europe. These are 7, 8, 9 hour flights. These use to all be on wide body aircraft, but now they can pay the pilots less and have them fly smaller aircraft on these routes. Also the routes that use to have to be on 3 and 4 engine jets are now on the 777, which pays the pilots less and only requires 2 pilots because of no FE.

This is how the industry is going for now it might go back the other way in the future. Hopefully for all of us it will or we might be flying RJs to Europe.

i saw an alaska air 737 at dca pick up a clnc to seattle! and dal uses 777 from mco to atl - probably cuz of bulk

I seldom travel on the airlines, but I don't think the seats are great on the mainline either. This is especially the case if you are stuck between two other people. Some of my most comfortable trips on an airliner have been on the connection flight, especially when I was lucky enough to have an airplane with a single seat "row" with nobody beside me.

Uhhhh....the seats are roughly the same size as the mainline seats. At XJT ours are NICER than mainline (all leather vs. dingy cloth) and NO MIDDLE SEATS. Ill take the A side on an ERJ over the middle seat in a 737 or 757 ANY day.

You must be rather small then?

6'0'' average build... Ill take a deadhead on XJT over CAL anyday.

Even if you are small, being stuck between 350lbs. of Bubba sprawled out reading the paper on one side and Mayor Mc Cheese on the other is no fun.

The single seat "A" side of a ERJ or the solitary bliss of a B1900 would be my choice.