Originally Posted by
Pinchanickled
In my humble opinion, a company can only go on like this for so long before it's D - O - N - E, DONE.
It's like a Ford pinto with the crank shaft bent, plugs fried, carb gummed up, gaskets leaking, radiator clogged, belt broken, engine mounts rusted through, valves burned up, tires bald, wheels out of alignment, cv joints not lubed, bearings worn, radio stolen, windows shattered, check engine light on, metal shavings in oil, timing off, throttle cable jammed, alternator not charging, battery low on water, brake lines frayed, power steering pump frozen, pads worn, rotors warped.....
It might seem that way ...
Instead it is more like the facade on a movie set. Behind the veneer of a flight operations department stands a billion dollar global marketing and production machine. When management gets tired of one scene, they just move the set pieces.
The answer is a single seniority list within a brand. Absent that solution, the next best would be agreements which would allow subcontractors to scope their flying.
Mainline pilots are grappling with these issues as they find themselves in international conglomerates where they are effectively subcontractors. Of course, they negotiate production balance language, but have thus far been ineffective in enforcement.
If ALPA is going to change the rules to allow Pinnacle to negotiate Section 1 with Delta, then why not use that new power to scope flying away from a non union carrier? After all ALPA has no responsibility to SkyWest, or Republic. If ALPA would use it's power in that way, the union would be much more relevant than it is today.