Nils Crane,
I recently met a Canadian Bombadier pilot at who was involved in the Kendals CRJ intro. Over several squillion beers he told me the following;
1/. Nothing was wrong with the Kendals pilots who were chosen on seniority to fly the CRJ. They were good guys/girls who flew well in his opinion.
2/. He had to attend a performance lecture given by AN mainline folks who were involved in the CRJ program. He related that a great deal of what was espoused at the performance class was unmittigated crap..........when he questioned the AN chappy on the veracity of the information that was being passed as gospel the statement was made..."We knew we would have trouble with YOU!!"
Barry was one of the Bombadier Performance Test Pilots!!!!
Kendal's CRJ program and it's pilots were done over by mainline tossers who believed only they should fly jets......and by mainline management who put the aircraft on the wrong routes.
The Seniority system had nothing to do with it!!!
Chuck.