Originally Posted by
Emb170man
If it comes to a strike, the RAH union will declare what is and what isn't struck work. It is the question of the decade in terms of what constitutes struck work for a regional. If this month the 6am CMH-LGA is on Shuttle America, and next week it is on Comair...and Shuttle strikes...is it struck work? Is it by city pair, time, flight number...the answers will be interesting!!
Since the Comair strike in 2001 mainline has been setting up their flying to get around struck work. Now they mix in several regionals into a hub and to each destination, they can work around struck work. DL is the most extreme example of this. During the Comair strike, OH dominated CVG and many of the cities served from CVG so DL could not place new service on those routes. Now that no city is limited to one regional for service, DL can add larger aircraft or adjust schedules for other airlines that service that city and call it a schedule change which does not come under the provisions of struck work.