So what happens when Pinnacle or Republic or whoever signs a deal with Delta guaranteeing them to fly 737s for Delta in exchange for xyz concessions and furlough protection in their contract. Of course, the regiona airline's MEC negotiates for it and the pilots at said regional vote for it. In order to save jobs and go along with the wishes of its members, ALPA national signs off on it.

Thanks to it being written later on, the lawyers have more experience and knowledge behind them into these scope sections and it is written more iron-clad than the Delta pilot's scope section. In court, it prevails over Delta pilot scope.

An agreement like this, as others have said, could destroy the pilot profession. Outsourcing will officially go from "they gave the flying away" to "we took the flying from them."

Some may not believe this could happen, but it could. It already is with this agreement. Delta is contractually signing a fleet count with Pinnacle. Unlike an agreement to outsource like in the past, which is just between the two airlines.... this one is being negotiated and signed by ALPA and put into a pilot working agreement. It will make it so that Delta pilots fundamentally cannot fight to regain scope in their next contract negotiations. ALPA has already signed the dotted line allowing that outsourcing to exist at another airline. All this without Delta pilots even allowed a seat at the table or a signature on the page. And we all know that, thanks to history, once these things get going, they never stop and grow out of control.


This is really bad. In 10 or 20 years, this could be remembered as a monumental screw up by ALPA just as large as letting the first RJ be outsourced 20 years ago. This has to be stopped.