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Old 01-02-2013 | 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Sink r8
I see your point. We had those contracts all along, but you're saying they were with the airline not the pilots. More specifically our union.
Yep, a good simple way to put it would be that Delta pilots and their scope control what Delta can outsource to other airlines. But, this deal is another pilot group directly negotiating with Delta for flying and therefore becoming a second group of pilots that owns and controls Delta flying.

There are now two pilot groups with scope agreements, both negotiated and signed by ALPA, that directly fight against each other for the same flying.

Those airplanes are no longer Delta pilot flying that has been given away. They are Pinnacle pilot flying. If Delta pilots want it back, no negotiating capital can make it happen unless Pinnacle pilots decide they want to give it up.
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