Top ten uses for regional jets

[Jonny Sacko]

How about porta potty's at air shows. A total fleet of RJ's with GPU's of course. Say in the bubble jet paint.

 

[Bako Cap]

Weren't the CrJ's originally designed for FredEx?

That's the way the Rumor went!
KBB

It was the CL600 Challenger that was designed to take over for the Falcons at FedEx, not the CRJ200. But, business was booming at FedEx and they needed much bigger jets than Challengers. The first 21 or so CL600s had doors that hinged on the top and opened up and out of the way for pallet loading. The CRJ200 was developed as a stretched Challenger for the MAJOR airlines to bypass their “choke point” hubs and fly point to point for premium passengers willing to pay for the service. If the major airline pilots would have scoped in the CRJ200, it would have been flown by major airline pilots flying hub bypass instead of further clogging the hubs, per union contracts, as they do today. At least the major unions did protect themselves against hub bypass, but made the aircraft do something it was never designed to do, feed the hub. The CRJ200 is not a good aircraft to feed hubs and the expense of the aircraft is a direct result of operating it out of design.

 

[Turtle21]

Enough of the $20,000 to fly a jet BS....

Like $30,000 first year to fly a 737 or MD80 is any freakin better! It's called first year pay. Get over it. You all did it, but now you're at the Majors so you get to slam RJ pilots. Last I checked, you had to take a Regional job to get to a Major.

Quit slamming RJ's and the pilots that fly them. You sound like elitist snobs. RJ's are better than their predecessors like Saabs, Jetsteams, Short, etc...

Should Major pilots fly them, who knows. If so, then there would be no Regionals, but the RJ's would still be there. Would there be a thread to make fun of them then? Probably not.

Enjoy your heavy iron. I'll go fly my ashtray, beercan, paper weight now.

Isn't the unity of ALPA wonderful?

ALPA has always sided with the management side of aviation and gets more dues paying members that fight amongst themselves because ALPA never fought for the profession since deregulation.

 

[XJohXJ]

Backup Singers: SHHH my parents are home.

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[purduej]

OMG They took your jurbs!

 

[planesrcool]

keeping all the majors flying since they cannot seem to do it them selves.

 

[McNugget]

Killing guppies at UAL....all the guppies.

 

[nimtz]

Quit slamming RJ's and the pilots that fly them. You sound like elitist snobs. RJ's are better than their predecessors like Saabs, Jetsteams, Short, etc...

Actually they're not. It's funny when I reflect on 5K hours in the Jungle Jet, my first thought is what a POS that thing was! Only reason I had a good time was cause the airline and crews made it happen. Yet when I think back on barely 1K in the Shorts I get the stereotypical 'paid my dues in that beast' grin on my face.

Open any airline mag at Borders and there's probably an article about how much fun a Twin Otter was back in the day written by a current 757 captain. Somehow I don't think 10 years from now you will see an overabundance of cushy articles written by mainline guys concerning found memories in RJ's. Reality is most guys that came up in Rj's are more then happy to say Bon Voyage to the garbage...

 

[say again]

The only RJ one can have fond memories in is the DoJet, and I'm sure fellow 328'ers will agree!!!!

 

[Jonny Sacko]

Ya, I'll give you that. The DoJet is missed. Totally different than that Piece of siht CRJ.

How about using the hulls as "mini-greenhouse", you park it at the local nursery, and they can use it for "Micro climate". It might put a real use for them.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

The only RJ one can have fond memories in is the DoJet, and I'm sure fellow 328'ers will agree!!!!

The Avro was loved at Mesaba though it really was a mainline airplane... derived from the BaE 146 that was flown by places like Pacific Southwest, American, US Air, ect. I still miss flying that plane.

 

[Jurasicpilot]

They should be melted down and used as urinals. Id buy one and p*ss on it every morning.

 

[lionflyer]

The only RJ one can have fond memories in is the DoJet, and I'm sure fellow 328'ers will agree!!!!

YOU BETCHA!!!

former 328'er (prop & jet)