Originally Posted by
ewr756drive
@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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, you are so blind by emotional reaction from scope you keep stepping over dollars searching for pennies. The Delta TA news dropped regional airline stock prices. Why? Because they will have much less business in the future. DCI currently flies about 40% of Delta's total block hours. That stands to drop to around 25% and contractually protected. If mainline flying decreases so will regional. Delta is protected to add over 800 pilot jobs to mainline because of the 717 deal. Add in the upcoming retirements, there will be plenty of movement to mainline.
70-seat or pound sand? They indeed will pound sand and continue to let you fly under a bankruptcy contract while Delta pilots enjoy upgrades, movement, and 50% better pay and benefits than UniCal pilots all because you want the all or nothing home run on scope.
Eventually you will tire of pounding your fist on the table and agree to a reasonable scope deal. But the money you could have made had you been reasonable earlier, you will never get back. Time value of money, this is something management understands, and pilots do to. And you wonder why they keep winning
Once again, good luck fellas