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Old 05-02-2017 | 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by SilverBull
Don't call Skywest a regional, their pilot group might take offense. They consider themselves mainline. But in all seriousness...
I get that we refer to 'Regionals' but I think it's a term that's outlived is accuracy if not usefullness. OO has more aircraft, destinations (in and out of the USA) and pilots than a lot of 'mainline' carriers around the world (I just flew on QANTAS - and they're a small outfit compared to SKW)...just saying...
Old 05-02-2017 | 02:55 PM
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We should really call them mainline, and aubcontractors

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Old 05-02-2017 | 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by SilverBull
Don't call Skywest a regional, their pilot group might take offense. They consider themselves mainline.
I've been here almost 3 years and I can honestly tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about. We're a regional. A subcontractor. A staffing agency for pilots earning D-scale wages.

Nobody here thinks we're mainline.
Old 05-02-2017 | 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbosina
I've been here almost 3 years and I can honestly tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about. We're a regional. A subcontractor. A staffing agency for pilots earning D-scale wages.

Nobody here thinks we're mainline.
Lots of 175 guys do actually

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Old 05-02-2017 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbosina
I've been here almost 3 years and I can honestly tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about. We're a regional. A subcontractor. A staffing agency for pilots earning D-scale wages.

Nobody here thinks we're mainline.
Then why did some guy asking us for our jumpseat say he was from mainline? When we questioned which one, he said SkyWest.

You many not, but some of your fellow pilots drink too much from the fountain.
Old 05-02-2017 | 03:40 PM
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Lots of 175 guys do actually

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I've never heard anyone mention anything that suggested they thought of Skywest as a mainline. Actually the opposite if anything. Granted I'm on the CRJ.

And as far as the 175 can you blame them. Look at that thing. It's so mainline-ish.
Old 05-02-2017 | 05:19 PM
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There's nothing "regional" about doing LAX-MSP or SFO-STL....
Pay is what makes us all ie. every regional a "regional," nothing more. We all do the same exact job as our counterparts at mainline. We're just somehow "unqualified" to be making a comparable wage to what mainline pilots do...
Old 05-02-2017 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by No Lies
Then why did some guy asking us for our jumpseat say he was from mainline? When we questioned which one, he said SkyWest.

You many not, but some of your fellow pilots drink too much from the fountain.
I call bs, you're probably from xjet, along with drinking the koolaid it's one of their favorite lines.
Old 05-02-2017 | 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by TogaParty
There's nothing "regional" about doing LAX-MSP or SFO-STL....
Pay is what makes us all ie. every regional a "regional," nothing more. We all do the same exact job as our counterparts at mainline. We're just somehow "unqualified" to be making a comparable wage to what mainline pilots do...

What he said!
Old 05-02-2017 | 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by No Lies
Then why did some guy asking us for our jumpseat say he was from mainline? When we questioned which one, he said SkyWest.

You many not, but some of your fellow pilots drink too much from the fountain.
Seriously? Who says 'I'm from mainline?' If someone really said that, they need a smack upside the head with a moldy trout. But I have trouble believing anyone would actually use the word 'mainline'...
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