What it comes down to is that, as stated above, the majority of the pilots here don't necessarily want the 190's(which are just a possible future provision in the J4J amendmet which has yet been voted on), but the reality of the situation is that management does. In my uneducated opinion, what shareholders want shareholders get.
It may seem that the situation is that if CHQ/REP pilot group, understandably, doesn't want the new J4J agreement, then long term 190 growth would go to any other airline that would. If the regional growth isn't at CHQ then we know where it goes. Absolutely no disprect towards those guys and gals but you protect your own...I only worry about my own pilot group.
Mainline relaxed scope and these decisions fell into our lap. We didn't want to deal with "mainline" size aircraft but we are forced to. Whatever decision the pilot group makes is based on facts provided by our own union and the information in the J4J packets...not "shiny airplane syndrome" or retoric found on websites.
Five years from now we'll see how this unfolded.
Also. any CHQ/Shuttle/REP pilot who hasn't gotten access to the Teamsters 747 website please, contact the local and log in as soon as possible. All of the valid information can be found there.