@Trip7- you are so blind. Delta scope is not a good deal! EVEN for you! If you cannot see that Delta would be SO happy to let YOU fly their 70-seat jet at child labor wages for the REST of your career you will never get it.
70-seat mainline scope is ABSOLUTELY critical and YOU should want it. Scope says fly the airplane here (at delta,) as many as you want.
Why is that important? Because it gives YOU a job! Would you rather stay in the left seat on a 70-seat jet for your career or get to a mainline? With scope....YOU have a job at mainline, with a seniority number, with retirement, and with the prospect of flying something larger than a 70-seat jet this DECADE!
70-seat scope is a farce! Anyone can see 50-seats at mainline is out of the question (cost wise.) 70-seat is not....it does and can work....you just have to be willing to see through the BS the company is saying and fight!
70-seat at mainline or pound sand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!