Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
Well it was Comair Jet Express. Still don't care about a handful of jets configured for 6-14 seats to fly to HPN for golf. What are we going to do? Reconfigure mainline jets to 8 seats and gold trim? Maybe there is a hope for 50's.
Because this is how it starts.
I would bet some of the discussion being held back in the day when rj's were first given away was: "it's
only 50 seat aircraft and flying....."
Then later it became: "we have to give up more than 50 seat flying.....but it is
only 76 seat flying that we are giving up...."
The next potential statement with regards to charter aircraft is: "It's
only 8 charter configured A-319's with XX seats......" or "we are eliminating our A-319 charter aircraft. That flying will now be performed by DBJ using XXX aircraft...."
Those charter aircraft violated our scope clause. alpa gave them away in this TA, even after saying scope was not for sale.
Scope erosion always starts somewhere. The proverbial camel's nose under the tent.
To me this is yet another symptom of a larger problem.....
And to answer your question on "what are we gonna do?" with regards to those aircraft: How about not give the scope away and let management figure their charter company problem out.