You doubt that 20,000 hours would’ve made a difference? That’s because you’ve never had that to fall back on. I can tell you that it does from my over 16 years of flying Part 121 airline operations. Again, you expose your inexperience.

 

Get over yourself. I've worked at regionals and a legacy carrier as well as jumpseated on many others. The level of competence from a flight deck perspective actually seems lower to me at the "legacies" than most regionals.

Not sure why that is though, maybe the shear number of legs coupled with less management/dispatch support makes the RJ pilots sharper? Or maybe it's an age thing..I don't know!

Regardless, we're all in this together and want more mainline (higher paying) jobs for everyone.

 

If they were smart the would have done the same exact thing the Regional pilots did, stay out of the way. It was on the ground and the door was open, the Gate agent still controls the passengers at that point. The gate agent and the Chicago police was dealing with a passenger who became disruptive and rushed back onto the plane after being escorted off (I bet you forgot that part). You see, the good Doctor needed to get back to his practice so he wouldn't miss out on illegally prescribing more opiates for profit (did you forget that part too?). That was when he was restrained, for reentering the aircraft illegally. What would a big shot Captain such as yourself have done in that situation? Get in between the passenger and the CPD?

ohh yeah, you can also blame Mainline United for overselling flights so much creating these types of situations daily.

 

With the world changing so dramatically in front of our eyes, it's nice to know some things never change. Like the fervent belief among some mainline pilots that they're innately superior to regional guys. I guess some people need someone else to look down on in order to suppress their own feelings of inadequacy. So if you equate your d**k size to the number of seats in back, and that belief will get you through this upcoming calamity, then, well...you do you.

 

social distancing is not forever - most of what you see is eyewash and made up restrictions that help nothing.
separate those at high risk and get on with business as usual

 

This is laughable. Nice how when people are looking at layoffs, they want to take other people's jobs. There are pilots at the regionals who have a lot of experience. And being FA for a few years or decades hardly makes one more experienced than the other.

 

Yet, 19 years later and we still have the TSA......

 

Taking a quick glance at the AAL and DAL forums, they aren’t predicting the blood bath that we are having over here. Seems their management must be using a different brand crystal ball than our guys. Nobody can know how this recovery is going to go, but it concerns me when our reaction is so different than AAL, DAL, or SWA. I’ve never had much faith in our management and this isn’t helping matters.

 

I have the exact same sentiment, makes me wonder about real intentions behind it. I get it Kirby is an aggressive guy, but to go both ways from such a huge displacement bid is not easy nor fast. The ball is rolling and we are all in for a bloodbath I don’t see a plan or a way out of this in a short term...

 

It’s not hard....you cancel the displacement. They covered this in the last town hall.