Right you are! Scope is not exclusively a junior pilot issue. Recapturing the 70-seat flying might seem to make it so, but the advent of 95-seat and larger RJs make it a mid-seniority issue, and issues such as the UAL-Air Lingus code share take scope right to the top of the seniority list.[/QUOTE]

This is not an issue just for a segment of the seniority list. Unless one will be retiring in the next year or two, this is an issue about the airline being an airline and controlling feed and flying or moving further down the road toward a virtual airline. For the life of me, I cannot understand the willingness of any company to cede control of their brand image and product. Management has clearly demonstrated that they are not trustworthy with RJs and scope. All of this RJ flying was and should be mainline flying... there should not be any distinction between mainline and regional or feeder, etc. It is ALL MAINLINE flying. Let's just make the contract reflect what was and should be reality.

If they can continue to outsource the smaller aircraft flying, they will next turn their focus to the mid and wide body flying. Time to stop the erosion.