Originally Posted by gloopy

So how was it that the ALPA lawyers negotiated, wrote and approved such weak language in the first place? So weak that it wouldn't even cover the worn out "separate certificate trick" (SCT) that's been around for decades?

ALPA lawyers and negotiators have known for a long time about the elementary SCT, which is why Song had to be flown by Delta pilots and also why all these foreign JV's had to be approved....we already had language preventing the SCT. But when our scope was written in C2K, tweaked during the run on the bank in the mid 2000's and tweaked again for the SOC, somewhere in there the greatest legal minds in the profession, with the most experience, the most resources, the biggest war chests, the most talented clerical help and the most AMEX Black cards at their disposal managed to give us a clause that falls for the most basic scope end run arguably in airline history...the SCT...as if they never saw it coming.