A 70 seat jet is not a 70 seat turboprop. I personally would like to see both at mainline, but they are not the same.
I AGREE. If they brought Q400s to mainline, that is all I would ever fly and bid. What a great airplane. Honestly.
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A 70 seat jet is not a 70 seat turboprop. I personally would like to see both at mainline, but they are not the same.
I follow your logic, but Steenland was always pretty outspoken about the RJ's replacing DC9's. ALPA was not stupid, they thought they knew what they were doing and they were selling the junior guys down the river to try to protect legacy pay for senior pilots on big equipment. They sold our flying.NWA ALPA let the fox in the hen-house when the company insisted that the large rj was not a DC-9 replacement. For doing so they would have to have had established the replacement pay rate, which was the current DC-9 payrate.
Either NWA ALPA negotiators were blind sighted or stupid.
Sadly, mainline pilots DID fly airplanes that small. You know the history of the DC9 and 737.Well quite true, money decides all. If you talk to people that were around during that time, it was money, but also the fact that mainline pilots did not fly airplanes that small.