mamba20 said:"rj pilots are a dime a dozen."
Pooter, you are an idiot. You think RJ pilots are a dime a dozen? So are "juked out" Lear pilots. RJ's are going to be the keystone of domestic airline flying in the next 10 years, so enjoy your gas guzzeling MD-88 while you still can!
Actually it would be you pooter.
There will be more RJ's in the desert in five years than old mainliners.....The RJ is a product of misguided mgmnt. at the big legacy carriers....market share it turns out is not worth the cash drain of an RJ. Nether United or UsAir will survive with the current RJ noose that they are wearing and that comes from many, many articles by the financial types... Midway first and now Independance are showing that you can not run a real airline with RJ's....And from friends that work there, Horizon is hoping to remove their Rj's from airline service and place them in fee-for-departure work as they are a huge cash drain on their otherwise profitable airline.......And it looks like Delta is going to get rid of Comair and ASA as they can no longer afford the cash drain...