denverpilot7

whats the problem with mainline taking back flying?

CBreezy

Nope. Try again. Keep guessing.

Duesenflieger

He is asking how mainline taking back its own flying will hurt regional pilots....

Duesenflieger

Are you retarded? The flying with their own aircraft and pilots on their seniority list. Good grief.

deadseal

General lee says you're a *deadseal*. I can't believe you threw out that same gif again. ******** Fair warning to all, I may feel compelled to do battle and wreck him again cause he is such a complete *aquatic mammal* on the Skywest forum.

trip

Time to shut it down. We don't this site wrecked like the last one.

deadseal

You promised to never speak of that again. We were drunk and you said it wouldn't hurt

DirkDiggler

Enough with the *dirk* measuring contest. If the plane says United on the side it should be flown by United pilots. End of story.

N1234

Maybe. But there is no end in sight to the regional model – it is an important piece in mainline strategy.

Regionals will continue to flourish within the permitted scope as long as they are able to staff the flying, remain cost competitive and there are no other constraints like infrastructure congestion at large airports.

The fact that mainline upgauges a route just means that customer demand / preferences justifies an equipment change. Maybe there is more traffic, maybe more business / first class revenue or simply a competitive response because someone else is flying an A320 on that route now.

The newly freed up regional equipment will just re-deployed somewhere else. There are plenty of places today that could support some EAS or other service. So the plane that just got replaced by mainline will be utilized elsewhere as long as marginal revenue exceeds marginal cost.

Mainline seniority lists may grow but not at the expense of regional seniority lists – again, this assumes that there are no other constraining factors.

hawk21

August at the earliest is what I hear