Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
How do you accomplish that when Pinnacle was authorized to negotiate directly with Delta management? Pinnacle ostensibly used their scope to capture airplanes which would have been flown by other ALPA members and succeeded in modifying the Delta preferential hiring provisions to favor them. It would not surprise me to see Endeavor negotiate rates on aircraft currently flown by Delta pilots.
We have rates currently flown by them and it doesn't mean we're anywhere remotely close to flying them ourselves. That empty threat was waived around back in 2000 with some ASA/CMR egos thinking they had 757 leverage by underbidding the mainline CBA. Didn't happen though, and its not because management stepped in to save mainline jobs.
While I absolutely hate the stench of what PCL and DL management did WRT their whole jets for concessions agreement, even if we assume their scope is now iron clad and superceedes ours like you claim, they only theoretically "own" how many 76 seaters? 40? The vast majority in the DCI fleet are not covered by their contract in any form and could still be taken back. It would take longer than the duration of the PCL contract to fully transfer the hundreds and hundreds of large RJ's to mainline even if the process started today, and we all know that's not happening.
So worst case we end up with 40 or so outsourced jets "protected" at PCL while we reclaim the rest (assuming we even care enough about the issue to reclaim a single one). That would be a really, really good start.