Originally Posted by
horrido27
We (The Entire Mainline Industry) Can NOT Give Up One Inch of SCOPE~
Once you give up any Scope, it will be almost impossible to get back...
Once you give up any Scope, you have also just made it harder for the next group to hold the line.
The Delta TA has the scoped out 50 seat flying going away and a significant amount of DCI block hours being shifted back to mainline for the 717 to fly. Combination of the 88 717s and 737-900s will add over 1200 jobs back to mainline with a 20% pay raise, industry leading DC plan, and back to the table in 2015, a year the UNICAL pilots will probably still be in negotiations looking for pennies in the dirt by trying to fly 70 jets etc. The Delta TA makes significant improvements to scope.
Like the original poster stated, its time to start realistically managing expectations, thinking long term, and understanding the time value of money earned now, rather than 10 years from now. Good luck fellas