Originally Posted by
gloopy
I would say if we wait to see a TA with more scope mistakes, we've already, best case, lost the opening battle. IMHO we need to light up the phone lines of our LEC's and P2P's and let them know in no uncertain terms that there will not be one more large RJ flying for Delta in any capacity unless its flown by Delta pilots.
They don't need relief for the 153 76 seaters...they can fly a million 76 seaters. Or 88 seaters. Or "hundred seaters" or whatever they want. We just have to be the ones that fly it.
There is nothing they can offer us to lure us into putting one more seat of scope relief into a TA and in fact, the first TA needs to contain significant scope recapture at all levels or NO DEAL.
Sure we vote down a TA if it comes to that, but we need to apply so much pressure before it even gets to that point that its never in a TA in the first place.
Gloopy,
I agree with your premise that we need to prevent any scope mistakes from getting into the TA...
I don't want to be (too) pessimistic but there are a bunch of sheeple who are Delta pilots. If DALPA comes up with a lame TA and the usual spin of "...it's the best we could do..." I have zero confidence it would be rejected.