Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
No.
Most mainline contracts permit outsourcing with certain limitations. At Delta that standard is 76 seats and 86,000 pounds. This "permitted" definition has greater importance in a merger.
In a corporate transaction an airline which operates non permitted airplanes gets a merger. Those who operate permitted aircraft do not.
So, ALPA has an entirely different representational standard if you have two seats installed under the PSU's in the back which make your airplane a 78 seat jet.
It has nothing to do with your airline's hiring standards, whether real or imagined.
Legally you may be right. But you are also looking at this from a better vantage point then most regional pilots are. Morally and ethically this does not seem fair to the regional pilots nor feel like we get equal representation. In essence what you say is size does matter and if you're small you haven't got a chance.