Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I have a hard time understanding how we sold scope back then, to sell something you generally have to own it. Our scope was essentially zero until the 91 contract. There was nothing to sell. In fact as pointed out RA was threatening to move all aircraft smaller then a 757 to ASA and Comair and under the current scope he could have done it. We were able in the 91 agreement to finally get some scope. We would fly all jets over 70 seats. No limits below that on jets or on turboprops of any size.
It's been a long time, so I'm calling on a lot of gray cells to cooperate, but I flew the BAe-146 at ASA in 1995-96, which was configured with 88 seats (originally 108 seats). I took a lot of grief from my Delta "brothers" in my Reserve unit because I was flying the scope-liner (yes, it was all my fault).