Lear70 is right, back in April 2001 when Express "turned to the street to put meat in the captain's seat", they paid hotels and maybe even per diem for those captains who came over from 121 operations.
Lucky me came from 135 so I was forced to live in a crashpad with 7 Saab animals who bugged me each night as I studied CRJ systems.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Lucky me came from 135 so I was forced to live in a crashpad with 7 Saab animals who bugged me each night as I studied CRJ systems.