I see nothing to gain by magically annointing another seniority list with DL numbers. Particularly if it involves DL numbers and longevity while still at their regional, maybe even for years, as that would involve a very steep price to pay for virtually zero gain. Unless the actual aircraft are transferred to our list as well, with a corresponding reduction in large allowable AC to be outsourced, simply putting more pilots on to our list south of our scope line without moving the scope line the same distance south does nothing other than try and trick the company into hiring top scale new hires which they're not going to do.

This is a mainline scope problem with a mainline scope solution. Reduce the allowable airframes to be outsourced and operate them here, with new hires at the bottom of the list. Simply gifting seniority numbers to regional pilot groups and/or placing them into our MEC does nothing whatsoever to change the fact that the airframes they fly are outside our scope line. CPZ being in the DL MEC was rediculous. The planes were still outsourced for incredibly low pay and benefits, they still had a separate contract and extremely limited leverage with a fairly weak long term contract. The only "link" was the flow, which was preserved either way anyway. If they were still part of the MEC, all that would do long term would be to set up DALPA for a DFR.

Even though CPZ would make the most sense of the bunch, the concept just doesn't work or do anything to reduce outsourcing or its negative effects. It doesn't bring the flying to this side of the line at all. Not by a single jet. And even if we re-annointed CPZ and somehow made it work, what about all the other "DCI" carriers…most (if not all by now) who fly for other legacy airlines as well. So regionals with numtipile seniority numbers at multipile carriers? Not going to work.