Originally Posted by shoelu

Because FDX, UPS, SWA never chose to sell out their scope. It is easy to gain hefty raises when you decide you are going to allow the company to outsource half the flying to the lowest bidder. When the company is allowed to hugely increase their profit margins due to outsourced labor they are obviously willing to share some of those profits with the very group that allowed them the increased profitability. The company is still way ahead in the game even while sweetening the pilots paycheck. The only problem is it is an unsustainable position on the part of the pilot group. The company will always desire more outsourcing because it always helps the bottom line. If you make the work that your group does a liability to the bottom line where do you go from there? Why is everyone clamoring to put the genie back in the bottle now? The answer is because trading scope for pay was a terrible decision in the first place.