Official definition of "Mainline Aircraft"?

[Minimaniac]

Seats: greater than 19 (anything requiring a flight attendant!)

Weight: greater than 20,000#

Powerplant: jet or prop

If mainline held on to all of these aircraft, they could mold their pilot group from day one. 35 years of training to a single company standard will
make us all safer, and make our jobs a lot more simple. Let the pay scales be what they may... I'll work for my same poor wages in the same aircraft if it gets me on a mainline seniority list. Having to wait a few years to get reasonable pay is tolerable if we only have to go through it once. Living with poor wages for 5 years just to get hired at a major to then spend another 3 years at low pay is inexcusable.

 

[AutoBus]

Just for fun. What do you consider a mainline aircraft (# seats, MTOW).

If it's got jet engines, it's mainline..

 

[BlueCanoe]

If it's got jet engines, it's mainline..

That's been used before. Then came the "commuters".

Nice try though....

 

[Trogdor]

When you are boarding the aircraft and it dosen't say "operated by........" fill in your favorite $hitty rj carrier. That is a mainline aircraft.

That is the best answer.

 

[crashpad]

Any plane where you're not "conjoined" with the person seated next to you.

 

[Well-hung Start]

Mainline aircraft:

Any plane, when added to a fleet, that doesn't cause the A-scale pilots to b!tch-and-moan

--or--

Any plane, when added to a fleet, that causes B- or C-scale pilots to come in their pants.

 

[catIIIc]

Mainline Aircraft = Whatever mainline scope says it is (hint, hint).

Exactly, so at CAL its any jet with 51 seats or greater
At AA it is anything with 51 seats or greater except the 25 CRJ's and 25 options.
At UAL it is everthing above 70 seats

Those are the only ones I know.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

Just for fun. What do you consider a mainline aircraft (# seats, MTOW).

Duh, the 170

 

[Papa Woody]

Mainline aircraft:

Any plane, when added to a fleet, that doesn't cause the A-scale pilots to b!tch-and-moan

--or--

Any plane, when added to a fleet, that causes B- or C-scale pilots to come in their pants.

LMAO...that is too fuggen funny!

 

[katanabob]

..an aircraft that can accomodate all standard carry-on bags in the overhead bins, an aircraft that can be outfitted to carry meals or snacks other than pretzels and peanuts, an aircraft that can be equipped with ovens for food preparation, and aircraft with more than one class of seating (a mainline ammenity), an aircraft with more than one flight attedant, an aircraft with more than one bathroom, and an aircraft that readily allows for passengers to disembark at terminal level (aka jetbridges at airports that have them!), etc..

So the Q400 qualifies as a mainline aircraft?

 

[SKYWRJGUY]

Anything anybody wants to fly when they move up to a carrier destined to enter bankruptcy.

 

[MECH]

A mainline aircraft is ANY aircraft that is operated for the parent brand. It does not matter if it is a 172, EMB-145, EMB170, B-737, A-380. If it is flying with AA, US, UAL, DAL, CAL passangers on board. Then it should be flown by that airlines pilots, period.


I know the above statement is not currently a reality. But as airline pilots we need to change this industry. Or we will all be working for Walmart wages before long.