Originally Posted by davenelson

smisek was offering delta +1 as a complete package. If we take it, we get its scope as well as its pay rates. In any event, what smisek is offering in the way of compensation isn't really what the delta pilots received. They also got, in addition to those hourly rates, an equity stake in the company that was convertible on day no. 1 of the contract. Jeffery conveniently leaves that part out.

obviously, you are as out of step with the rest of the pilot group's desires on scope as you are with the remainder of the inadequate delta +1 offer. Our negotiating team included with its opener pay rates for 70-seat and 95-seat regional jets, to be flown by united pilots on the united seniority list. There are indeed provisions for phasing in that flying in recognition of present contracts.

The bottom line, iahflyr, is that by endorsing a 70-seat scope (which smisek would not accept; he wants 95), you're endorsing the furlough of your pilot brothers and sisters. Not one lost job is acceptable to me, and to the majority of the new united's pilots.