Its becoming entirely obvious that our contract Section 1 is dysfunctional.
The company pretty much ignores it and DALPA has no intention of ever enforcing it.

I'm beginning to think that the whole scope clause kabuki dance that management and DALPA perform is only for the benefit of the line pilots. To maintain the illusion that we have some control.

I suppose all that may be the inevitable result of a fast changing industry. Circumstances change so rapidly that its not in either party's interest to actually pay any attention to the language in the contract. We just re-write the language for every contingency or "opportunity" that management presents us with. We traded more large RJs for some 717s that were probably coming anyway and to get rid of some 50 seaters that were going to be retired anyway. When RAH bought Midwest
the ALPA lawyers just came in and told us the part of our contract that we thought prevented them from flying 717s was not enforceable anyway. Now we are about to trade our NRT flying for some fancy new protections or maybe some new 330s that are coming anyway.

Given that situation, maybe we should just be using whatever leverage we can gain from the company's need to modify the contract to maximize our incomes.
We should just calculate whatever revenue is going to be gained from allowing these NRT codeshares to continue and tell them we want 75% of it. In cash. Paid annually along with the profit sharing. Take it or leave it.

Our scope clause has proven useless for actually controlling scope. We might as well get some money for it. You know we're going to re-write that NRT flight quota. Changed circumstances require it. Why bother pretending that DALPA will miraculously write some new scope clause that is any less carved in Jello than the current one.

Same goes for the AF/KLM production balances. Management knows we're going to re-write it. We won't force them to follow the contract if they say it would be unprofitable. Might as well just get some cash for all of our constructive engagement. Why do we constantly go through this charade for nothing in return?
Show me the money.