Should Regional Airlines Exist?
 

Please vote in the poll. Screen names are hidden in results. It would be great to get a few hundred responses if possible.

You might be a YES voter if you feel some of the following is accurate:

• Pilots have to pay their dues

• In order for pilots to make lots of money at the top, there has to be a low paid group at the bottom

• Scope is irrelevant

• Companies are free to make money however they want, law of supply and demand in effect

You might be a NO voter if you feel some of the following is accurate:

• Regional Airlines are nothing more than a B scale

• The difference between the top of the payscale and the bottom is too large for doing the same job

• All jet flying needs to be flown at the major airline

• Current model does not support one level of safety as mandated

What we really need is a return of the CAB and regulation of the prices...ergo higher pay

This is an absolutely pointless poll.

1. No sane pilot wants regionals to exist... their sole purpose is B-scale, further depressed by whipsaw.

2. Pilots don't decide whether regionals exist.

How is it pointless? Are you are telling me that all major airline pilots want the regionals to go away? Having low pay regionals around has something to do with their high salaries.

But none-the-less I appreciate your input and thank you for voting in the poll.

Should Regional Airlines Exist?
 

Yes, small props to serve regional airport in the middle of nowhere. Not to connect ORD and SLC on a 76 seat jet.

Just to ask, why can't those small props be flown by major airlines?

if you do not like regionals existing, the eliminate them and raise the ticket prices by 100% to cover the increased mainline pilot list. If not increase the ticket price, then give up 30-40% of the current mainline payroll to cover the cost increase to cover the same flying at mainline.
But remeber, no matter how little your income will be you can stand up and say I AM A REAL MAINLINE PILOT, in that food stamp line.

because mailine pilots did not want to fly props.

gotcha, thanks for your vote.

Smiling to myself as I type this. Do we really need a poll for this? Is there really a single pilot in the US that thinks the Regionals are a good idea? I predict 100% no votes by all Major and Regional pilots. And I'd truly like to sit at the bar on an overnight with a yes voter and listen to their arguments for a Regional system.:eek: