Originally Posted by
Phuz
IMO it is shortsighted and naive to think that 850+ 50 seat RJs currently flying today will dissapear because of a confluence of factors that you and many others believe is coming down the road. Remember '00? If you asked someone in '99 or 2000 what their thoughts on the industry were, would anyone have thought it would end up the way it has? Things change.
You don't solve scope by ignoring it while you blindly assume that the current trends are going continue and solve it for us in 5-10 years time. IMO a beneficial solution on scope is FAR more likely if it is proactively achieved versus passively awaited.
Exactly! These guys who think they have a crystal ball and can "connect the dots" crack me up. We need to get a handle on this scope thing so that, no matter what happens in the future, we stop and reverse the outsourcing.
Kinda reminds me of how many of us were spooked into voting for extending our bankruptcy/emergency buying power for an extra 2 years because supposedly 2010 would be a total meltdown in the airline industry and would be a terrible time to negotiate a new contract. We had to do anything we could to facilitate the merger so we could be "too big to fail and get a seat at the bailout table." How did that turn out? Record profits in 2010 and now our careers are stagnating or even worse going backwards. At least we have our bankruptcy pay...
When anyone tries to convince me to make a decision one way or the other, because they say they know what's going to happen in the future.... that's when their credibility becomes near zero in my book.