coex guys and friends having to deal with the scope yourself line of thinking... you're right to laugh. you can't scope yourself. if you did, you'd be out of a job and replaced by RAH or Skywest or somebody. Meanwhile the majors will continue to favor pilots with thousands and thousands of hours of Part 121 Jet PIC and your stand on principle will mean you won't get a job there either. Unless the scope yourself crowd convinces recruiting not to hire regional pilots then regional pilots will continue to have the resume airlines want.

As a former coex guy I think I've seen this thinking in the worst ways imaginable when I was there. For some of those guys I think it literally was their hope they could fight for pay raises and regionals would ensure that for nothing in return they'd ask to be fired or something.

The key point is that Delta Connection pilots can't scope Delta pilots. Coex/XJT can't scope CAL. But DAL can scope DCI and CAL and scope Coex.

So at Delta it is our responsibility to fight for our own scope and there are a ton of us that want to, there are a ton of senior pilots who know if a 50 seater can kill a 732 then a E-Jet surely can kill the same if not bigger. People are willing to make this fight.

And I promise you I'll fight the scope yourself crowd but, remember, there are a lot of lifers and squatters at Coex and DCI and so on that need to come to terms with the fact that when we say scope we mean their flying and we want it back and that means they'll lose it. They're not going to like that but in the end it's my hope that bringing the flying here will result in mass hiring instead of prolonged times at regionals.