Originally Posted by
jdt30
So if corporate should worry about marketing, why are you here worrying about "our" feelings about scope? We as United pilots have the right to be as angry and irrational about scope as we want to be. We have been screwed over for years, we have learned the lesson of giving management an inch and management taking a mile.
That's why you build in a block hour ratio protection like Delta did. It's simple math. Unlimited 100 seat RJs with a 5% limit on total block hrs is better than 200 50 seat RJs with up to 50% of total block hours allowed. Because CAL has 50 seat scope doesn't mean CAL's scope is better than UAL. It's the mainline to regional block hour ratio that shows who really has better scope. And I bet they are similar. Block hours determine pilot staffing.
At the end of the day, the Delta TA has scope that is far superior to UNICAL's agreements.