Originally Posted by Fly4hire

This is one of the biggest fallacies of the DPA.

In the non-binding, advisory meet and confer required of the Ford-Cooksey settlement, ALPA regional DCI carriers supported our Scope changes, knowing full well the ramifications - because they want to see the mainline grow and hopefully see a mainline job. The ALPA regional BOD reps 2 years ago put the final nail in the coffin the attempted resurrection (by UAL) of the National Seniority List because they knew it would make them junior forever. ALPA Regional members supporting mainline Scope, even at the potential cost of their own positions - fancy that. I'm sure they'd be doing all of that if the weren't part of ALPA