Originally Posted by NedsKid

In 2001, it's my understanding Delta's scope read:

• DL Connection can also operate up to a total of 57 SJs certificated for up to 70 seats; this number can increase to max of 75 if Delta Air Lines growth exceeds block hour plan in PWA
• Limit stage length: At least 85% of Connection flights must be under 900 statute miles
• Limit hub bypass flying: At least 90% of Connection flight segments must operate to or from Delta
• Limit Connection Flying Between Delta Hubs: Maximum of 6% of Connection segments between Delta hubs
• Limit of Planned Delta Connection Block Hours as Percent of System Block Hours (Delta + Delta Connection):
  – 34%, 36%, 37% for years 2002, 2003, 2004 and after, respectively
• No domestic code sharing with large carriers.

As an outsider looking in, the cap seems to have gone from 75 70-seat aircraft to 255 70+ seat aircraft in less than 10 years, and now the proposal is to increase this to 325 70+ seat aircraft?!

Are some of these other protections still in place (stage length, hub bypass, block hour protections) from the 2001 CBA?

The "No domestic code sharing with large carriers" is also of concern. Why is there limited talk on the forum of this scope issue (Alaska), and just large RJ's? Delta pilots are losing flying to not only Delta Connection, but to Alaska and Air France too, no?

Without knowing all the details, its hard to say how I'd vote, but what I do see is hardly as simple as "another slam dunk for the Delta pilots".