I'm kinda repeating something from another thread, but can't we get reasonable scope protection from a solid mainline / express block hour ratio? UAL is stopped at 50% in the current contract and that's the only thing that has prevented management from shifting even more flying to express (they're up against the contractual limit). Can we get reasonable scope protection by changing that ratio to something like 25% express block hours max AND limiting airplane size to 70 seats ? Looking for answers, not flames here. What is the consensus for the best way to protect scope?

I've often thought that we could give up "size" scope by getting a contractual clause that Express can't fly anything over 250 nm. That would eliminate the RJ flights from IAD to Austin, COS, etc. There SHOULD NOT be Express flights from IAD to COS direct.