Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Pineapple Guy,
Contract 2000 was the first agreement following the changes at the 1998 Board of Director's meeting which gutted and bifurcated ALPA's Merger and Alter Ego Policies. Prior to these changes ALPA's response to an alter ego was to force a merger. After these changes management was permitted to own and operate an alter ego. ALPA, in exchange, received "bargaining credits" for permitted flying in Section 1. Technically, while Contract 2000 might have reduced the numbers, it very likely was the birth of monetizing scope for credit. In plain terms, it does appear to be the origination of the market in the trading of job protection provisions.
Bucking, I'll defer to your historical record, but I know that Delta was certainly using ASA and Comair well before that time, and that flying was specifically permitted by the Delta PWA. Everything in the 1990 PWA and 1996 PWA restricts Delta with regards to airlines/aircraft above 70 seats, but ignores everything below that. In C2K we finally attempted to collar the under 70 seat flying. I don't see how you can call that a failure, other than we subsequently gave up those ratios.