Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

About 3,500 after the DL acquisition at ASA and CMR, and another 3,500 to 4,000 at the other carriers who were mostly non ALPA. Add in the jobs that appeared, then disappeared (ie ACA), and the number goes to just under 10,000. Clearly mainline growth was lost and mainline careers stagnated. Even D-ALPA agrees on that point. ... and duh ... closing the scope loophole is part of the acquisition. Of course, now I just read Delta's really bad scope language goes back further than I'd have guessed considering Ransome ATR pilots and NorthEast Folker pilots retired from this place.