Top ten uses for regional jets

[spacecadet1]

Look on the bright side: things will only get worse. With age 65, and massive furloughs which are just starting to ramp up, there will suddenly be a huge over supply of pilots. Just when it looked like things were turning around, and there was all that talk of pilot shortages, and it looked like wages might increase.. Many of these furloughed pilots will be looking for jobs. Places like Virgin with terrible wages will look attractive. And there will be no incentive for them to increase wages, since they know people are stuck. I think anyone with other marketable skills has already left this job. The only ones left are just plain stuck.

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

The RJ's are too p ussy.

#1 the structural integrity wouldn't allow a huge door cut into the side.

#2 a 4000# pallet would crush the floor

Weren't the CrJ's originally designed for FredEx?

That's the way the Rumor went!
KBB

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

How about we use the RJ's as shelter for the homeless.

Somebody call FEMA!
KBB

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

FEMA housing for midget cajuns.

Sorry you already got to FEMA!
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[Ky.BrownBourbn]

How many years have they been there? 20?
I'm calling BS on this.
We want #s to prove this...and I bet there aren't any.

I made that at 35 (with 13 years seniority) before I left, as far as 20's...I doubt it!

No saying it couldn't be done but I doubt it!

KBB

 

[Jonny Sacko]

How about porta potty's at air shows. A total fleet of RJ's with GPU's of course. Say in the bubble jet paint.

 

[Bako Cap]

Weren't the CrJ's originally designed for FredEx?

That's the way the Rumor went!
KBB

It was the CL600 Challenger that was designed to take over for the Falcons at FedEx, not the CRJ200. But, business was booming at FedEx and they needed much bigger jets than Challengers. The first 21 or so CL600s had doors that hinged on the top and opened up and out of the way for pallet loading. The CRJ200 was developed as a stretched Challenger for the MAJOR airlines to bypass their “choke point” hubs and fly point to point for premium passengers willing to pay for the service. If the major airline pilots would have scoped in the CRJ200, it would have been flown by major airline pilots flying hub bypass instead of further clogging the hubs, per union contracts, as they do today. At least the major unions did protect themselves against hub bypass, but made the aircraft do something it was never designed to do, feed the hub. The CRJ200 is not a good aircraft to feed hubs and the expense of the aircraft is a direct result of operating it out of design.

 

[Turtle21]

Enough of the $20,000 to fly a jet BS....

Like $30,000 first year to fly a 737 or MD80 is any freakin better! It's called first year pay. Get over it. You all did it, but now you're at the Majors so you get to slam RJ pilots. Last I checked, you had to take a Regional job to get to a Major.

Quit slamming RJ's and the pilots that fly them. You sound like elitist snobs. RJ's are better than their predecessors like Saabs, Jetsteams, Short, etc...

Should Major pilots fly them, who knows. If so, then there would be no Regionals, but the RJ's would still be there. Would there be a thread to make fun of them then? Probably not.

Enjoy your heavy iron. I'll go fly my ashtray, beercan, paper weight now.

Isn't the unity of ALPA wonderful?

ALPA has always sided with the management side of aviation and gets more dues paying members that fight amongst themselves because ALPA never fought for the profession since deregulation.

 

[XJohXJ]

Backup Singers: SHHH my parents are home.

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[purduej]

OMG They took your jurbs!