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Originally Posted by BobDDuck  It doesn't work that way. Hence the whole, if you don't own your flying you ain't ####.
So what, you don't go with the airplane. In fact, ask the Mid Titanic guys about that (that's how you GOT those planes in the first place). A 175 flown at a mainline carrier is going to require the same number of pilots as it does at a regional. In fact, it may require a few more because they have better work rules and staffing models then the regionals do.
So there wouldn't be a bunch of pilots on the street. Your captains would move up into FO slots (and have to start all over) and you would move up to captain. That's the way it works. You can't magically not want it to happen because you'd eventually have to start over.
Hell, I fly for a company that IS owned by a mainline carrier and sort of do own our own flying and WE can't even get mainline numbers. |
Well thats my point. Is that, yeah it would eventually be a great thing, but the number of pilots and their families affected would be great as well. In a years time, I wouldn't have the time requirements to get hired at mainline. So those of us that are trying to build that time would in turn lose our jobs unless our company brought on smaller airplanes. Which I really wouldn't care. I didn't come here to fly a particular aircraft. If that were the case, I'd of went overseas and flown the big metal for what they are begging for.
If Captains moved up to mainline as FO's, than how would us FO's become Captains on equipment that needs to be sold? This is confusing.