Originally Posted by
LAX Pilot
Well its better than the unlimited 50 seat jets and unlimited 78 seat Q-400's that CAL allowed before. UAL had block hour limits at least.
There should be no problem with this SCOPE. It does exactly what we want it to do; LIMIT the flying done by pilots that aren't on our list. We don't want to fly those little airplanes, because as sure as we did all the NO voters would come on here and say that its a plot to park all the big aircraft and force us all to fly 50 seat RJ's on a B scale, etc.
We shall see how good it is.
The CAL language was "self limiting" Sure, the 50 seat RJ's were unlimited, but due to their poor economics they were "self limiting." The company could have crews flying for free and they still would have poor economics due to their limited payload capability. The 50 seat jet was poorly thought out and poorly implemented. It may have made sense on paper to replace the E-120's with an E 145, but the reality is it was not.
The language does limit the flying while simultaneously providing scope relief. How stringent the limitations are, and how well it is enforced, combined with the company's TRUE plans on 90 class seat aircraft in the future will show us how GOOD it is (or isn't).