Yeah we're chicken and egging this one a bit. My point is that getting the jets at mainline is great. That's the goal. But they were just given up, and for a reason. Simply keeping another pilot group in the MEC would have done nothing to change that, but even if it did and even if it resulted in a "staple" the company could still then go out and outsource 255 large RJ's, 153 of which are extra large RJ's. Ironically bringing the CPZ large RJ's to mainline could have ended up allowing even more large RJ's to be outsourced under the 3:1 check valve.

The problem/crime wasn't that CPZ pilots weren't put onto the mainline list but rather that the seat range that they fly off the list wasn't put on the list. In addition to that, operating them separately under a different contract as an outsourced airline really opened up DALPA/ALPA to a major DFR down the road. I'm all for bringing the flying back and putting it on our list. But we have to get the flying back first. Putting pilots on the list to do flying that's not covered in our scope does little and only inks the water even more than it already is.