Regional wannabes flying jets at flight school!!!

[yaya]

His statement above clearly shows he has not. I have seen them in training granted and some do ok....but at least 50% are no sharper than the well trained Private/Instrument.

... Well said. Go to Joe's flight school. Get through your Darwin hours on somebody else's dime and while its still your own ticket.

 

[yaya]

To say that majors cant live with out regionals is absolutely absurd. The only reason why majors actually have feeders is it isnt cost efficient for them to run that route with their own planes/pilots. In retrospect now with reduced pay and regional a/c becoming larger, you will see more of those routes come back to mainline. For example, Doug Parker(ceo of the new us airways) said he wants to reduce his regional flying. If you take a good look at the E190 and compare it to layouts of the E170-175 you will see the seat range diff. is only roughly 11-17 seats. Depending on the configuration you put the a/c in. To split the profits between two companies (mainline & feeder) on a certain route is not as profitable as it used to be. More and more airline management is discovering that the loss value would be lower or profit would be higher doing that line of flying in house. But yes you will have routes that mainline carries just do not want to deal with. Look at Airtran and Jetblue, Airtran tried feed using Air whisky an the end they cancelled it, look at jetblue, they using their 190's for that purpose. Legacy carriers you will see in the future will follow those examples.

Your experience speaks...